It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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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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