If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIt was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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