"Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva……" — Abraham Verghese
"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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89 Quotes by Abraham Verghese
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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