Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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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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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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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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