I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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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’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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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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