There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
ABRAHAM VERGHESENot only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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