The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEBeing the first born gives you great patience.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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 grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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