It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhen you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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