Make something beautiful of your life.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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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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