In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
ABRAHAM VERGHESESandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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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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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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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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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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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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