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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

Abraham Verghese

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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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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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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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