No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
ABRAHAM VERGHESENo blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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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.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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