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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEDon’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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In 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.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Geography is destiny.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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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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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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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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