She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhen I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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