He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYour job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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