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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

Abraham Verghese

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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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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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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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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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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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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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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