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• I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.

  J. G. Ballard

  Inspirational, Political, Way

  "Age of unreason". Interview With Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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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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• He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That’s the solution.

  Stephen King

  Tired, Men, Thinking

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Half: A Novel”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

  David Attenborough

  Transition, States, Enjoy

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

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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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• Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close... that, supposedly, I won't suspect. Hagen: Somebody like me. Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you. Hagen: I'm German-American. Michael: To them that's Irish.

  Mario Puzo

  Like Me

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• We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Consistency, Deception, Looks

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1109, Race Point Publishing

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• Do you think it makes people nasty to be loved? You know it doesn’t! Then why should it make them nice to be loathed? While you’re being persecuted, you hate what’s happening to you, you hate the people who are making it happen; you’re in a world of hate. Why, you wouldn’t recognize love if you met it! You’d suspect love! You’d think there was something behind it—some motive—some trick.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Hate, Nice, Love You

  Christopher Isherwood (2012). “A Single Man”, p.54, Random House

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• If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.

  Richard Yates

  Lying, Simple, Tragedy

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• Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

  Isaac Asimov

  Atheist, Science, Religion

  Free Inquiry Journal, Spring 1982.

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• I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

  Alison Bechdel

  Criticism, Found, Stills

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.202, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.

  Ann Aguirre

  Dark, Dust, Sky

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Doubleblind”, p.64, Penguin

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• I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Father, Weak, Results

  John Kennedy Toole (1980). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.161, Dubois Publishing

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• In fact, he's never taken an interest in a woman before. I was beginning to to suspect he might prefer one of his male sneaks, but now..." She paused dramatically. "Now, we have the lovely, intelligent Yelena to get Valek's cold heart pumping." "You really should get out of your sewing room more. You need fresh air and a dose of reality," I said knowing better than to believe a word Dilana said, but unable to control the silly little grin on my face. Her sweet, melodious laughter followed me into the hallway. "You know I'm right, " she called.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Sweet, Laughter, Believe

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.169, Harlequin

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• Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Broken, Looks, Ankles

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (1994). “Anne of Green Gables”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions

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• employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Denial, Century, Function

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• ...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes or lives less miserable so that we might be more kind-well, then, lets have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wall, Might, Hanging On

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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've always found that one of the biggest benefits of being a girl is that most people refuse to take you seriously. While boys must be constantly monitored and are always the first suspects when anything goes wrong, everyone expects girls to do what they're told. It may seem a little insulting at first, but low expectations can be a blessing in disuise. If you're smart, you can use people's foolishness to your own advantage. It's amazing what you can get away with when no one bothers watching.

  Kirsten Miller

  Girl, Smart, Blessing

  Kirsten Miller (2007). “Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City”, Bloomsbury USA Childrens

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• The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, Crafts, Facts

  Mark Twain (2012). “Humorous Stories and Sketches”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

  Lynn Barber

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

  “My harsh lesson in love and life” by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.

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• But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target

  Richard Wright

  Color, Skins, Target

  Richard Wright (2009). “Uncle Tom's Children”, p.30, Harper Collins

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