Abraham Verghese Quotes, Dream Quotes, Hurt Quotes

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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Geography is destiny.

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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

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How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.

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Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

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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.

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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. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

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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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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

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