There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEShe felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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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 love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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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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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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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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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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I’ve had my share of angels.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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