We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIt is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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Geography is destiny.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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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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