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Famous Quotes By R.A. MacAvoy

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The rose," he announced. "Loveliest and most formidable of flowers. Arms of York and Lancaster. In medieval times, a symbol of Jesus. Always, it has meant, beauty, love, peace ..."
He presented the bud to Martha Macnamara. It lay resting on his long fingers until she scooped it up. She sniffed it and held it up to the light.
"Symbol? What's a symbol? This is a rose." She smiled and walked on,. — R.A. MacAvoy

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She turned to John to share the joke, and he was transfixed, looking into the catastrophe of her sagging, bleary-eyed face. — R.A. MacAvoy

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Live or dead, no creature might escape the unfolding of its own actions. He — R.A. MacAvoy

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There was that odor about her: not a sweetness, exactly, but a wildness suggesting breezes that have touched cold water and living wood. — R.A. MacAvoy

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Systems analysts rarely call their parents from across the country with mysterious problems. Still more rarely do they disappear. It is not part of the technical mentality to disappear. — R.A. MacAvoy

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What was she, after all, except the memory of all she had done, telling her the sort of person she was and guiding her next act consistently? Without that, what was left but blind chance and leaves blown meaninglessly through the trees? — R.A. MacAvoy

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Fire was Mr. Long's chosen element; he had no sympathy with the rain. Yet he knew water was preordained to win, in the end. In man's end, at least. No vault or sepulcher could keep out the damp forever, and even ashes dissolved. — R.A. MacAvoy

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Grabbed in the ass by fate," his father used to say about coincidences like this. If there were coincidences like this. If there were coincidences... — R.A. MacAvoy

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But two things I have ever respected are warmth and the ability to sit still." Martha — R.A. MacAvoy

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Pragmatism was a sword that cut through such knots; an action was to be judged by its consequences alone. — R.A. MacAvoy

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But engineers can be really naive about themselves; they think because they can design a pc board and it's right and it works, that everything they do or believe is going to be just that right. — R.A. MacAvoy