If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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 was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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