Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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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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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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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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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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