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 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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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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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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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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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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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