Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIf you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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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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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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