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title: "7 Quite Suddenly Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [“Quite suddenly she understood the impulse that caused men to engage in casual blasphemy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-gabaldon/quite-suddenly-she-understood-the-impulse-that-caused-men-to-engage/)

[Diana Gabaldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-gabaldon/)

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> [“Maybe it was just one of those days when you hear an old question a new way, that quite suddenly shifts your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-orenstein/maybe-it-was-just-one-of-those-days-when-you-hear-an-old-question-a/)

[Peggy Orenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-orenstein/)

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> [Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/nothing-is-so-dangerous-as-being-too-modern-one-is-apt-to-grow-old/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [“Is it possible not to ever know your type-not to even know you have a type-until quite suddenly you do?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-e-smith/is-it-possible-not-to-ever-know-your-type-not-to-even-know-you-have-a/)

[Jennifer E. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-e-smith/)

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> [Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/very-suddenly-yes-quite-suddenly-i-didn-t-feel-like-i-could-handle-my/)

[Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/)

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> [A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/a-sudden-understanding-a-pity-mixed-with-horror-welled-up-in-bilbo-s/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“...and then quite suddenly I found that I had no rider, that I had no weight on my back, and that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-morpurgo/and-then-quite-suddenly-i-found-that-i-had-no-rider-that-i-had-no/)

[Michael Morpurgo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-morpurgo/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/155/michael-morpurgo-3162_suddenly_and-then-quite-suddenly-i-found-that-i-h_2587598.png)

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