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A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise. — Joyce Carol Oates
I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others. — Joyce Carol Oates
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? — Pablo Picasso
Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth. — George Saunders
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts. — Zadie Smith
I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system. — Clarence Thomas
I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core. — Len Wein
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. — Woodrow Wilson
She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw… — Pat Conroy
Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative… — Jean Webster
Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside, grabbed a paintbrush,… — Sara Shepard
And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved… — Anne Rice
There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise… — Obert Skye
He’s a pagan! I’m an artist! We’re naturally sympathetic! — Sidney Howard
I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the… — Frantz Fanon
The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is… — Norman Mailer
Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic. — Caroline B. Cooney
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run… — Herman Melville
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred. — Alexandre Dumas
At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion… — Terry Pratchett
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite… — Hector Hugh Munro
She'd been impressed by his looks at first--those sharply planed cheekbones and those black, fathomless eyes--but his affable, sympathetic personality grated on her now. She… — Cassandra Clare
At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have… — E. M. Forster
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in… — David Byrne

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