What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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 most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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