I’ve had my share of angels.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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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.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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