To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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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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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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