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.
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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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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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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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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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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