I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhy settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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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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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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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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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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