Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
ABRAHAM VERGHESESometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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