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ABRAHAM VERGHESEThey realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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