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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’

Abraham Verghese

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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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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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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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