Abraham Verghese Quotes, Heart Quotes, Son Quotes

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

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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

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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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A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

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Your 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.

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

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

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

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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations. At times, with today's advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America's cities, but the variety of practices is enormous. 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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How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.

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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

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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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