Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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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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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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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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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’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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