Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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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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