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

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"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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"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."

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"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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"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice."

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

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

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"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."

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"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."

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"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."

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"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."

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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 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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