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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.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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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.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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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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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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