Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
ABRAHAM VERGHESELife, 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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