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Max Lucado
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Celebrating Christmas with
When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise."
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Mark Haddon
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The Curious Incident of the
Then he snored and I jumped and I could hear the blood in my ears and my heart going really fast and a pain like someone had blown up a really big balloon inside my chest. I wondered if I was going to have a heart attack.
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E.M. Forster
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Aspects of the Novel
We come up against beauty here - for the first time in our enquiry: beauty at which a novelist should never aim though he fails if he does not achieve it. I will conduct beauty to her proper place later on. Meanwhile please accept her as part of a completed plot. She looks a little surprised at being there, but beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face, as Botticelli knew when he painted her risen from the waves, between the winds and the flowers. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due-she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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Frank Herbert
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God Emperor of Dune
Chance is the nature of our universe. {…} madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
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Charles Dickens
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David Copperfield
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything
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Joan Didion
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The Year of Magical Thinking
How could this have happened when everything was normal?
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Garth Nix
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Abhorsen
Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.
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James Patterson
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First Love
IF YOU ASK ME A PERSON DOESNT GET ENOUGH SURPRISES IN A LIFE TIME.
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Anne Lamott
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Plan B: Further Thoughts on
Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can't short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can't patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
There can never be surprises in logic.
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Stephenie Meyer
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The Host
Humans were always surprising me.
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Franz Kafka
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The Metamorphosis
What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.
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