“ What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party. ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. ”
- Isaac Bashevis Singer- Copy
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“ Decency…must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
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“ That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises. ”
- Peter Bart- Copy
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“ It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around. ”
- Mary Pickford- Copy
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“ The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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