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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight

Abraham Verghese

A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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Chasing Died Each Elsewhere Greatness Hand never Saw Seeking Time
If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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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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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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God Instrument Leave Play Sitting Son Three
When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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God Greatest Ignoring Made Possible Sin

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