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"In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning."
"And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse."
"The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter."
"after several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer."
"The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever since been mystified by amateur coin tricks, was able to guess the identity of the murderer from the middle of the book."
"Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us."
"On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping."
"Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy."
"A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse."
"The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude."
"When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners"
"If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures."
"One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses."
"The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary"
"[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy."
"He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter."
"...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity."
"A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide."
"I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons."
"Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience."
