I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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