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I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This… — Pat Conroy
I am all astonishment. — Jane Austen
I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Dustfinger inspected his reddened fingers and felt the taut skin. ‘He might tell me how my story ends,’ he murmured. Meggie looked at him in… — Cornelia Funke
But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden shock, astonishment, or… — Douglas Adams
What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought the whalers and… — Barry Lopez
I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Both of you’ll just have to believe me. Emma’s one of those women who was born with… The thing is, the minute a heterosexual man… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children know me by… — Stephen R. Lawhead
She had imagined Jace leaping from the bed in astonishment and gasping something like "Egad!" This didn't happen-largely, she suspected, because Jace had seen much… — Cassandra Clare
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment. — Salman Rushdie
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me… — Richard Dawkins
I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual… — Kurt Vonnegut
I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen,… — Octavio Paz
A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’ ...from a Himmel street window, he… — Markus Zusak
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions:… — Eugene Ionesco
So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness and poetic differentness… — Sylvia Plath
The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when… — Mikhail Lermontov
He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief. — Cassandra Clare
And as for you Agent Pallas – man-to-man, if you ever insult my girl on national television again, I’ll…” he stopped. Everyone in the room… — Julie James
I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if… — Jon Krakauer
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself — Jorge Luis Borges
The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it… — R C Sproul
We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror,… — Douglas Kennedy

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