Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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