Geography is destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhy settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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 was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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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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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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