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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.

Abraham Verghese

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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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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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Administered Blink Comfort Ear Emergency Father Gaze Treatment
Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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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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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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