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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil

Abraham Verghese

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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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