Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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