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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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