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"It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear."
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"As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed."
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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 am looked upon with suspicion. I am on the "other side.""
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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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"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice."
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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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"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."
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"I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place."
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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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"And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you."
Writing
"It s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans."
Relationship
"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."
Reason
"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."
Business
"She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only the truth of observation, which was the truth of mere journalism. The best fictional detail was the detail that should have defined the character or the episode or the atmosphere. Fictional truth was what should have happened in a story - not necessarily what did happen or what had happened."
Literature
"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."
Being
"Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving--Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home."
Grief
"People are like that .... They need to make their own worst experiences universal. It gives them a kind of support.' And who can blame them? It is just infuriating to argue with someone like that; because of an experience that has denied them their humanity, they go around denying another kind of humanity in others, which is the truth of human variety -- it stands alongside our sameness."
Humanity
"But good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive."
Relationship
"Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us."
Gender
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