Abraham Verghese Quotes and Sayings
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“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted”
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“Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.”
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“You live it forward, but understand it backward.”
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“There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-”
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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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“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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“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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“The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.”
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“What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”
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