Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhen 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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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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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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