Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEFor one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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