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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More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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Why 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.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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