He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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