Suspects Quotes - Page 15

• You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather, to write what he would write if his life depended on his taking responsibility for writing what he must in a style designed to shut out as few of his old librarians as humanly possible.

  J. D. Salinger

  Believe, Writing, Responsibility

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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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• 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'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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.

  Meg Cabot

  Mean, Aunt, Guessing

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Airhead Book 2: Being Nikki”, p.216, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Reading, Complaining

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.261, Univ of California Press

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• If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

  Louise Erdrich

  Daughter, Body, Life Is

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• I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap. I figured out how to jam their person-tracking technology. I can turn innocent people into suspects and turn guilty people into innocents in their eyes. I could get metal onto an airplane or beat a no-fly list. I figured this stuff out by looking at the web and by thinking about it. If I can do it, terrorists can do it. They told us they took away our freedom to make us safe. Do you feel safe?

  Cory Doctorow

  Airplane, Eye, Technology

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• I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it's the only kind I have to give. I think we're going to be quite a wealthy couple in terms of money, but I'll almost certainly be an emotional pauper all my life. I've got the money coming, but as for the rest I've got just enough for you, and I won't ever dirty or dilute it with lies. Not with the words I say, not with the ones I hold back.

  Stephen King

  Couple, Lying, Dirty

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• Watching those guys pummel each other so no one would suspect them of being weak was too much for me. Their reputations were more important than their faces.

  Jay Asher

  Guy, Important, Too Much

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.112, Penguin

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• No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Heart, Mystery

  Kim Edwards (2010). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter”, p.466, Penguin UK

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• Seriously?" I shrugged. "He can't suspect much if every time we're alone instead of talking I have my way with him." Cole shook his head. "You don't think it'll work?" I asked. He rolled his eyes. "Vayl might be a vampire, but he's also a guy. Who's about to be deliriously happy. Good God, if you work this right, he won't even be mad if finds out because of the way you decided to hide it from him.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Eye, Thinking, Talking

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• It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride.

  James Lee Burke

  Children, Stories, Path

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• I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study or kill me?" Floote raised a tentative hand. "Ah, yes, thank you, Floote." "There is also Mrs Tunstell, madam," he offered hopefully, is if Ivy were some kind of consolation prize. "I notice you don't mention my fair-weather husband." "I suspect, at this moment, madam, he probably wants to kill you." Alexia couldn't help smiling. "Good point.

  Gail Carriger

  Husband, Mean, Hands

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• Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

  Vincent Price

  Eye, Awake

  Vincent Price (1959). “I like what I know: a visual autobiography”

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• Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Thinking, Advice

  Gore Vidal (1999). “The Essential Gore Vidal”, Random House Incorporated

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• There's a small possibility that I might be a murder suspect" Stephanie

  Janet Evanovich

  Might, Murder, Possibility

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• I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning

  Scott Lynch

  Drowning, Ends

  Scott Lynch (2007). “Red Seas Under Red Skies”, p.209, Del Rey

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