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• It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.

  Ryan Adams

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wrath, Righteous, Temper

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

  Roger Scruton

  Firsts, Sometimes, Boring

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• Mojo grace means the shocking benevolence of a mysterious force beyond our comprehension.

  Rob Brezsny

  Mean, Grace, Mojo

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• I'm always really surprised by people who are comfortable revealing all of their secrets on TV or in a magazine. It's actually quite shocking to me.

  Annabella Sciorra

  People, Secret, Tvs

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• I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Angel, Feels

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1994). “These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993”, p.67, New Directions Publishing

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• Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Fall, Writing

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• I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.

  Steve Almond

  Heart, Men, Soul

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• Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, People, Training

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I am not the one responsible for the Marquess of Atherton's heir and sole offspring. I am not the one who will be toppled from my pedestal if the world learns I have not only permitted but encouraged my nephew to associate with the most shocking persons. I am not the one who-" "I wish you were the one who had heard of the rule Silence is Golden," he said.

  Loretta Chase

  Silence, Judgement, Nephew

  Loretta Chase (2015). “Lord Perfect: Number 3 in series”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in aversion, for I am sure that such a thing would be quite shocking! And Charles would not do so either, would you, dear Charles?”(Elizabeth Ombersley) “No, certainly not. But neither would I consent to her marriage with any such frippery fellow as Augustus Fawnhope!” “Augustus,” announced Cecilia, putting up her chin, “will be remembered long after you have sunk into oblivion!” “By his creditors? I don’t doubt it.

  Georgette Heyer

  Long, Doubt, Papa

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• Her tiny hand gripped mine with a surprising warmth, and in a shocking wash of emotion, I felt everything I knew shift. The scent of cinnamon and baby powder hit me, and as my eyes widened, my heart melted, making room for her.

  Kim Harrison

  Baby, Heart, Eye

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• they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Mind, Watches

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Motivational, Marketing

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• There is something very shocking about seeing him standing dark and still on our doorstep. I lean the door a ways. The night's getting chilly. "You got away from the yard." "Is it still all right?" "It's all right. It's me and Gabe and Finn and Tommy Falk." "I've brought this." He holds up the bread, which is clearly a Palson's loaf, and it's still so fresh that I can smell the warmth of it. He must've come straight from there.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dark, Night, Doors

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.311, Scholastic UK

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• Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

  Alan Moore

  Voice, Silence, Generations

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• If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.

  Reza Aslan

  Leadership, Wisdom, Country

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• This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known.... 'Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value.

  Fanny Burney

  Country, Time, Way

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• With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.

  Rosanne Cash

  Grief, Tragedy, Unbearable

  Rosanne Cash (2010). “Composed: A Memoir”, p.108, Penguin

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• when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Kindness, Two, People

  Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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• What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

  Ronald Dworkin

  Ideas, Community, Morality

  Ronald Dworkin (2013). “Taking Rights Seriously”, p.305, A&C Black

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• If you live in a free market and a free society, shouldn't you have the right to know what you're buying? It's shocking that we don't and it's shocking how much is kept from us.

  Robert Kenner

  Buying, Free Market, Free Society

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The camera can capture thought in a way that's quite surprising and shocking. You can become very simple and minimal in your work and communicate a lot with just a finger or an eyebrow, or a look, or a glance.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Simple, Eyebrows, Way

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• Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Knives, Mad, Wife

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1865). “Verses and Translations”, p.61

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• I always want to see films that are startling and amazing. Not just shocking. Shocking is easy to do. But startling in the way that makes you change how you think about things. Those are the movies I like the best.

  John Waters

  Thinking, Want, Way

  Source: southpawfilmworks.net

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