There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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Geography is destiny.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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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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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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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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