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Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.

Edie Falco

Jobs, Cancer, Diagnosis

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The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the lanuage is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as thought the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.

Amy Tan

Moving, Writing, Ideas

Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.167, Penguin

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I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

Mark Twain

Growing Up, Maturity, People

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Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!

Elinor Glyn

Running, Ambition, Animal

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Nothing surprises me anymore. We'll keep doing what we're doing. I'm going to keep going forward with solutions that I want to see applied to this great country, the challenges that we're facing. And things like that [e-mails as governor published] are going to be perhaps a distraction for others. They won't distract me.

Sarah Palin

Country, Challenges, Want

"Exclusive: Sarah Palin on U.S. Economy, National Bus Tour". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. June 5, 2011.

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I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.

Philip K. Dick

Strange Person, Next, Sometimes

Philip K. Dick (2012). “Solar Lottery”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with. You never know who’s going to come into your life - and for me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

Taylor Swift

Falling In Love, Love You, Thinking

"InStyle’s June Cover Girl Is... Taylor Swift!". Interview with Sharon Clott Kanter, www.instyle.com. May 17, 2011.

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No, she knows you're here. She can see through the camouflage. But I think she's hiding something from me, and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Never mind. Just listen. Once she drinks the tea, she will try ot surprise me with something. She is waiting for the contrast to be fully in effect before she says anything. I knew I never should have let you watch The Wizard of Oz.

Kevin Hearne

Thinking, Hiding Something, Should Have

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Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.

Minnie Driver

Hollywood, Way, Actresses

"'I dropped down to 7st and cried a lot': Minnie Driver on how Hollywood fame made her miserable". Stylist Magazine, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 8, 2012.

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...went to a bar for a few drinks. The bartender asked what I wanted. "Surprise me", I said. So he showed me a naked picture of my wife.

Rodney Dangerfield

Wife, Naked, Bars

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I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.

John Cusack

Surprise, Plans, Universe

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I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.

Jerry Cantrell

Thinking, Done, Records

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What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And just when I felt I could finally take a break, I encounter the age discrimination. I turned 72 and started noticing a drastic difference in people's attitudes. I started with racism and sexism in the beginning and fought them so hard and was finally ready to relax. Then, here comes ageism, and I feel like, "Give me a break!"

Yoko Ono

Attitude, Artist, Differences

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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In some ways, I was a little bit surprised [by how dominant we were] but then I look at the players in our changing room and it doesn't surprise me because we've got quality in there. If we click and play well like we did in the first half, we can open up any team.

Rio Ferdinand

Team, Player, Quality

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It always surprises me how much my followers appreciate how candid my photos are - they may not have a particularly unique subject, but it's more about the light you shed on the subject than the subject itself.

Connor Franta

Unique, Appreciate, Surprise

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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Khaled Hosseini

Book, Surprise

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Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.

Mark Oliver Everett

Falling In Love, People, World

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I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't something I had considered, but it did not surprise me. A mortal man's strength had its limits. He spent himself and slept. He could be a good lover, but even his best skills were only guesswork - for every caress that sent a woman's head into the clouds, he might try ten that brought her back to earth.

N.K. Jemisin

Lying, Men, Clouds

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Never take your eyes off your opponent. And never think you don’t have to work for a victory. Even now, you could surprise me. (Takeshi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Eye, Thinking, Victory

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.432, Macmillan

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Surprise me, Atlantean. Attack. This isn’t a dance party. (Takeshi) You know, this isn’t building my confidence. In fact, I think I’m just going to lie here for a bit and take in some sun. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Lying, Party, Thinking

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.432, Macmillan

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Bubbles. On a scale of one to ten, a bubble bath has to rank zero as far as things I'd expect an older-than-dirt-badass vampire to indulge in. The only thing that would surprise me more would be if you pulled out a rubber ducky. -Kira to Mencheres

Jeaniene Frost

Zero, Badass, Indulge In

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Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Rebecca Solnit

Worry, Ugly, Way

Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.175, Canongate Books

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...you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go on, perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on

Samuel Beckett

Pain, Doors, Long

The Unnamable (1959)

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Abe's face came back into focus. "Greetings, Zmey," I said weakly. Somehow, him being here didn't surprise me. "Nice of you to slither on in." He shook his head, wearing a rueful smile. "I think you've outdone me when it comes to sneaking around dark corners. I thought you were on your way back to Montana." "Next time, make sure you write a few more details into your bargains. Or just pack me up and send me back to the U. S. For real." "Oh," he said, "that's exactly what I intend to do." He kept smiling as he said it, but somehow, I had a feeling he wasn't joking.

Richelle Mead

Real, Nice, Writing

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In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. "So what does that really mean? In simple terms." I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently. "I think it means," I say, "that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms.

Haruki Murakami

Mean, Thinking, Compassion

FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 16, 2011

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