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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

Abraham Verghese

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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Crookedness Enough Serpent Slide Snake
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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Addressing Anyone Broken Job Leg Medicine Terrible Trip
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Country Interlude Less Life Meal More
It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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Alive Currency Memories Memory Proof Stories
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Airports Body Country Doe Information Interest Opportunity Treasure
You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Backward Forward Inspire Life Live Understand
Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Board Digit Jumped Number Pray Shiva Two Uninvited Wrote Zero
I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Back Carried Educated Looking Physician Probably Uncle Well
They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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Church Eulogy Legacy Matter Money Procession Realize Remove Service
What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Country Disease Fight Fighting Godly Poverty
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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Capacity Great Medicine Patient Sense Student Suffering Year
A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Begin Boo Club Discourse Living Meaningful Room Spread
I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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Always Book Contributing Country Middle Sense Wanted Write
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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Alive Beautiful Imagination Keeping Literature Time World
Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Contemptible Misspent Rich Valuable Vanity Wisdom Yesterday
Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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Absurdity Arrive Descend Hole Job Place Point Preserve relief Yourself

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