He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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