Geography is destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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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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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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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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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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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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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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