Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
ABRAHAM VERGHESEA rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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 grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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