Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIf seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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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
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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