There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYou are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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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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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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