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• All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.

  Zadie Smith

  Book, People, Fiction

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• Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Time, Blow, Dust

  "Expulsion". Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's letter to the Secretariat of the Soviet Writers' Union (November 12, 1969) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1970.

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• I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

  Thomas Sowell

  Imagination, World, Facts

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• We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Suspicion, Findings, Paid

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.26, New York Review of Books

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• There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Finding The One, Doubt, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.116, Penguin

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• Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Different, News, Entitlement

  "The future of newspapers, the end of journalism". Malcolm Turnbull's Speech to the Advanced Centre of Journalism at the University of Melbourne, www.abc.net.au. December 8, 2011.

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• If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?

  Jesse Ventura

  Police, Knows, Seems

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• It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

  Gore Vidal

  Birthday, Believe, Exercise

  Encounter Dec. 1967, "French Letters: Theories of the New Novel"

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• I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

  Jacki Weaver

  Brother, Crazy, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law.
  By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

  Ai Weiwei

  Rights, Controversial Topics, Law

  "Ai Weiwei: Despite flaws, America should be proud" by Ai Weiwei, www.cnn.com. November 6, 2012.

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  The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

  Saul Williams

  Cnn, People, Hip Hop

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, edition.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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• I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.

  Bob Woodward

  Swag, Numbers, Literature

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

  Steven Wright

  Sarcastic, Cat, Sarcasm

  "I Have A Pony". Comedy album by Steven Wright, 1985.

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• There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Winning, Two, White

  Kathryn Stockett (2011). “The Help”, p.688, Penguin UK

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• I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

  Evan Williams

  Talent, Entrepreneurial, Bigs

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• Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Honesty, People, Virtue

  The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

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• No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.

  Dean Koontz

  Relationship, Dog, Betrayal

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• You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

  Robin McKinley

  Military, Government, Littles

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• Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)

  J. D. Salinger

  Real, Artist, Praise

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• I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena whose nature and provenance he cannot determine. And I grew afraid of everything around me – afraid of the air, afraid of the night. From the moment we can know almost nothing, and from the moment that everything is limitless, what remains? Does emptiness actually not exist? What does exist in this apparent emptiness?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Night, Men, Air

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• Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

  Zadie Smith

  Skins, Should, Infection

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.264, Vintage

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• We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wall

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• Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

  Nella Larsen

  Children, People, World

  "The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories".

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• Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Courage, Selfish, Science

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.140, Basic Books

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