They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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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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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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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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