Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Geography is destiny.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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