Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
ABRAHAM VERGHESEAs she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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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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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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