When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Geography is destiny.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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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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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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