If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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