If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEBy visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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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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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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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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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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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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