Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEPray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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