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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

Abraham Verghese

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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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