Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIf ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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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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Geography is destiny.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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