Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIt’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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