I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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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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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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