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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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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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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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