Suddenly Quotes
2531 Suddenly quotes by 1697 unique authors
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels…
— Alan Lightman
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Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up…
— Ann Patchett
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He smiled at that, and then his gaze shifted to a spot over my shoulder and it faded. 'These doubts wouldn’t have anything to do…
— Karen Chance
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I had a dream about a motorcycle," said Harry, remembering suddenly. "It was flying." Uncle Vernon nearly crashed into the car in front. He turned…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond…
— Richard Brautigan
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Now anyone who has ever been on a blind date is well familiar with “The Moment”—that moment where you first walk into the bar or…
— Julie James
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The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a…
— Fannie Flagg
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Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.
— Douglas Adams
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I glanced at Radu. "What, exactly is Louis-Cesare's problem?'. [..] Suddenly a speculative gleam lit his eyes. It made me nervous. 'He tends to be…
— Karen Chance
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The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset abruptly…
— John Ashbery
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So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but…
— Graham Greene
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Why does anyone stay in an unhappy relationship? Because people do. They do it all the time. And the truth is, when you’re in it,…
— Sarah Dunn
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All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that…
— Nicole Krauss
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Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different.…
— Emily Giffin
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She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things…
— Clay Shirky
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood…
— Jodi Picoult
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I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the…
— Dodie Smith
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All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz…
— Robin Hobb
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Heaven has no taste." "Now-" "And not one single sushi restaurant." A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.
— Terry Pratchett
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Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again…
— Karen White
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Come on,” he droned, “I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they…
— Douglas Adams
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Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and raised my eyes…
— Ivan Turgenev
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