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

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Abraham Verghese

#Medicine Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Emergencies Quotes

“Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.”
“Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.”
“Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.”
“I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.”
“People had their image of what a cowboy was, ... A lot of it was perpetuated by the media presentations of the cowboys in fiction and old Westerns. And because of the tenure of the times, African-Americans were left out. As a result, reality was distorted.”
“You can certainly shorten things and tighten things, we tightened up Jon's walk to Mance Rayder's tent. That was something that got tightened up a little bit because I had shot the hell out of that.”

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“If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.”
“Iâ€™ve abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact â€“ really, itâ€™s better.”

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