Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories Compassion Quotes

The people would have helped her if they had known how, as people in this town will as often as not be kindly if they have a chance. (Ballad.227)

Now all this wise doctoring was over. She told one-half of her patients that they were going to die outright, and to the remaining half she recommended cures so far-fetched and agonizing that no one in his right mind would consider them for a moment. (Ballad.227)

What he must do, he told himself, was to regard the whole situation impersonally and look on Madame Zilensky as a doctor looks on a sick patient. (Madame.33)