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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEEmpathy can be replaced by cynicism.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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 greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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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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