I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEGod 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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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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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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