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1085 Sudden quotes by 866 unique authors

Sudden Light I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell,… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us... — Dan Simmons
What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being. — Vladimir Nabokov
There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my… — Hermann Hesse
Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -" "Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. "Or else… — Lewis Carroll
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of… — Aleister Crowley
All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that… — Jeffrey Eugenides
They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up… — Cormac McCarthy
I have a sudden urge to pee.- Spader — D. J. MacHale
… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut,… — Anne Rice
All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In… — William Saroyan
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or… — W. Somerset Maugham
But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has… — Jean-Paul Sartre
I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate… — Jane Hamilton
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and… — W. Somerset Maugham
Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater… — Bertrand Russell
All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish… — Charles Dickens
They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden… — Stephen King
Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness… — Hermann Hesse
Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?" The Cat was trying to decide if this was a rhetorical… — Frank Beddor
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy,… — Booth Tarkington
And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over,… — Sarah Dessen
For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. — Daniel Defoe
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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