You live it forward, but understand it backward.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhen a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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