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Nathalie Sarraute

"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."

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Amber Hurdle

"Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch."

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Amber Hurdle

"And people think she killed him?" said Miss Tick. She sighed. "They probably think she cooked him in the oven, or somet."

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Amber Hurdle

"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

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Amber Hurdle

"I aint sure we've seen these people before. Their kind. I dont know what to do about em even. If you killed em all they'd have to build a annex on to hell."

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Amber Hurdle

"Double one mistake?Seriously?Sounds like something is going on...!"

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Amber Hurdle

"I am looked upon with suspicion. I am on the "other side.""

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Amber Hurdle

"As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed."

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Amber Hurdle

"Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic," Richard told me. "And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious."

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Amber Hurdle

"Listen, child-if you're at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he'll be the last one you'd suspect."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place."

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"Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps."
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"I have never sought the reason why I write."
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"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."
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"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."
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"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."
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"Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing."
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"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
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"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."
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