Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIn America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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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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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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