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

There wasn't any point in dwelling in the pain of the past, not when the future could hold suck pleasure. — Abraham Verghese

One operates in the now. — Abraham Verghese

It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive.
Memory. p 380 — Abraham Verghese

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole. — Abraham Verghese

No money, no church service, no eulogy,no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit. p 354 — Abraham Verghese

Sometimes, if you think you're sick, you will be. — Abraham Verghese

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

It was the very moment when I thought, At last, she is going to stay, but in fact it was her good-bye. — Abraham Verghese

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In working myself ragged, I felt integrated, I felt American, and I rarely had time to think of home. — Abraham Verghese

A fool with a tool is still a fool. — Abraham Verghese

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him ... — Abraham Verghese

And there will be no more interruptions and you will be staying for dessert, coffee, and cigars. — Abraham Verghese

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted — Abraham Verghese

How beautiful and horrible life is, Hema thought; too horrible to simply call tragic. Life is worse than tragic. p 108 — Abraham Verghese

Do the right thing, put up with unfairness, selfishness, stay true to yourself ... one day it all works out. — Abraham Verghese

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills. — Abraham Verghese

a person who does not have respect for time, and does not have a sense of timing, can achieve little. — Verghese Kurien

Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief. — Abraham Verghese

What neither the reader nor Stone would accept was that his self-amputation was as much and act of conceit as it was an act of heroism p 61 — Abraham Verghese

Men like him became stubborn with opposition, because their convictions were all they had. — Abraham Verghese

I am one of those who firmly believe that our cities thrive at the expense of our villages; that our industries exploit agriculture. — Verghese Kurien

India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals — Verghese Kurien

I realised, in all humility, that chosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other option. — Verghese Kurien

The fact that people were attentive to his body does not compensate for their ignoring his being. — Abraham Verghese

Impending death had a way of unexpectedly unearthing the past so that it came together with the present in an unholy coupling. — Abraham Verghese

Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being
surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it. — Abraham Verghese

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals — Abraham Verghese

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed- — Abraham Verghese

Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels. — Abraham Verghese

You live it forward, but understand it backward. — Abraham Verghese

A world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time. — Abraham Verghese

You see, young Dr. Marion, that's what makes us human. We always want more. — Abraham Verghese

Guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action. — Abraham Verghese

You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. — Abraham Verghese

The tide had turned, and the worst possible thing had happened: my heroes had become the "bad guys," and one didn't dare say otherwise. — Abraham Verghese

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

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If the situation demanded autocracy, I gave it autocracy. — Verghese Kurien

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. — Abraham Verghese

Telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology. — Abraham Verghese

The croup following measles, on top of malnutrition, on top of rickets," he said to me under his breath. "It's the cascade of catastrophies. — Abraham Verghese

The uneventful day is a precious gift. — Abraham Verghese

Sisters of the Nigrizia — Abraham Verghese

Make something beautiful of your life. — Abraham Verghese

Tizitash zeweter wode ene eye metah. I can't help thinking about you. — Abraham Verghese

All sons should write down every word of what their fathers have to say to them. — Abraham Verghese

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear? — Abraham Verghese

Geography is destiny. — Abraham Verghese

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

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

When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense. — Abraham Verghese

A man is only as rich as the number of children he fathers. After all, what else do we leave behind in this world ... — Abraham Verghese

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

A child's ability for reprisal is infinite, and can last a lifetime. — Abraham Verghese

She drew others to her like acolytes only for them to discover she wasn't recruiting. — Abraham Verghese

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

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart ... — Abraham Verghese

Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform. — Verghese Kurien

Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer. — Abraham Verghese

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

When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right." Harris — Abraham Verghese

By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure. — Abraham Verghese

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake. — Abraham Verghese

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom. — Abraham Verghese

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

I'd become aware of human complexity
that's a kinder word than deceit. — Abraham Verghese

Everyone needed an obsession. — Abraham Verghese

Your "Gloria" lives within you. — Abraham Verghese

What a journey ... what a day ... what madness, so much worse than tragic! What to do except dance, dance, only dance ... — Abraham Verghese

You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time. — Abraham Verghese

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

She found her greatness, at last, found it in her suffering. Once you have greatness, who needs anything else? — Abraham Verghese

I knew what I'd say to him: You're much too late. We went ahead with our lives without you. — Abraham Verghese

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

I'm so sorry,' Stone said. I don't know whether he was speaking to me, or Ghosh, or the universe. It wasn't enough, but it was about time. — Abraham Verghese

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds. — Abraham Verghese

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny. — Abraham Verghese

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd
Vanity makes beauty contemptible
Wisdom is more valuable than riches. — Abraham Verghese

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

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
From Cutting for Stone — Abraham Verghese

A good surgeon needs courage for which a good pair of balls is a prerequisite, — Abraham Verghese

Envy Is Behind Flattery. — Abraham Verghese

What a bad idea it had been to give the Bible to anyone but priests, Ghosh thought. It made a preacher out of everybody. — Abraham Verghese

Now I saw this categorizing of my freezer food as a sign of the true chaos in my head. — Abraham Verghese

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

happened has happened, be will be — Abraham Verghese

So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house. — Abraham Verghese

All my ghosts had vanished; the retribution that they sought had been exacted. I had nothing more to give, and nothing to fear. — Abraham Verghese

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand. — Abraham Verghese

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody. — Abraham Verghese

People change, you know. When you leave your country, you are like a plant taken out of soil. Some people turn hard, they can't flower again. — Abraham Verghese

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

Nevertheless, I drove right past my landmark, an antique store which looked to me like an ordinary house with junk piled on the front porch. — Abraham Verghese

All possibilities resided within me, and they required me to be here. If I left, what would be left of me? — Abraham Verghese

Her unhandsome, but beautiful friend of so many years ... — Abraham Verghese

...his crime was to belong to the losing side, or perhaps even the wrong side. But all he'd done was follow orders... — Abraham Verghese

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. — Abraham Verghese