Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
ABRAHAM VERGHESEShe had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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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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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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