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Cutting for Stone
Abraham VergheseFamous Abraham Verghese Quotes
“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted”
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“Life is like that. You live it forward but understand it backward.”
Variant: You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Abraham Verghese Quotes
“The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.”
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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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“No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.”
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“Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals”
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