I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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