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 VERGHESEPatients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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’ve had my share of angels.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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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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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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