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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

Abraham Verghese

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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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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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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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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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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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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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