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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed."
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Personal Development
"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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"I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"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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"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
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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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"This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on."
Humor
"This mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice people-because, surely, Wally was nice-would say a host of critical things about someone to whom they would then be perfectly pleasant. At. St. Cloud's, criticism was plainer-and harder, if not impossible, to conceal."
Hypocrisy
"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."
Family
"Ruth Cole was a novelist, novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing."
Work
"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
Reading
"I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story."
Time
"The demands of writing and of real life are not always similar."
Art
"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."
Enemy
"Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy."
Nostalgia
"They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other."
Relationship
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