Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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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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