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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
it the bloody-brinjal-and-bugger-all. Which is
— Abraham Verghese
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 beingsurely 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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— Abraham Verghese
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
What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
— Abraham Verghese
Geography is destiny.
— 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 complexitythat'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
I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
— Abraham Verghese
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'dVanity 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
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
