Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
ABRAHAM VERGHESE
We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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