Abraham Verghese Quotes, Book Quotes, Men Quotes

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

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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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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

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Being the first born gives you great patience.

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If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.

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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

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Geography is destiny.

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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. I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician. My intent wasn't to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession, 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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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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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.

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...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

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

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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

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