Rae Foley Quotes

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She nibbled away at her thought like a rabbit with a piece of lettuce.

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People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

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People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think about yourself, directs your interest to your own body and what is happening to it. You don't reach out benevolently, filled with good will for others. You don't seem to care enough. Pain makes you a little person, not a big one, and not a nice one, except perhaps in the case of saints, and I've never known one.

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Cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

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Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.

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It's easy to respond to the hate cries, usually carefully wrapped up in a flag. Perhaps hate is the greatest simplifier of them all. It's the man with the throb in his voice, the man with the easy formula, the man who tries to shout to my emotions instead of speaking to my mind, the man who is sure he is right that I run from like hell.

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He bore the stamp of the unforgivable sin in a physician — uncertainty.

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Ledyard was as earnest as a father inspecting his son's electric train.

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The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

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He will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want commonsense instead of magic.

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We shared everything all our lives, the important ones and the trivial ones, and it's the trivial ones that build ties between people.

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You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it.

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The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

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His gestures were awkward to the point of appearing uncoordinated. He used his hands as though they were feet.

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James was the kind of man who would make a death-struggle with an octopus sound as heavy and dull as a Sunday dinner.

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People who care nothing about money probably exist or we wouldn't hear so much about them. But I've never encountered one in the flesh.

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Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.

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I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.

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He turned back from the door. Apparently, like adolescents, he thought he had gone when he had said good-bye.

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Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.

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The city official had been affable without being at all forthcoming, a most desirable attribute in a man who wants to hold a position without taking one.

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