You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhy is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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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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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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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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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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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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