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• For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Self, Imagination

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• The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

  Julian Barnes

  Book, Mind, Way

  "The road not taken" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2005.

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• What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed from without; born of the profoundest tendencies within a society, its direction is to a certain extent unpredictable, in much the same way as the eventual configuration of a tree's branches.

  Octavio Paz

  Art, Tree, Style

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• Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow.

  Karl Shapiro

  Yesterday, Overwhelmed, Tomorrow

  Karl Jay Shapiro, Richard O'Barry (1990). “Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts”

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• When we are relaxed and reasonable content, we are naturally wise. We accept that life is unpredictable, unreliable. We say jokingly or philosophically, "Nothing is sure except death and taxes," or "God willing and the creek don't rise," reminding each other that, notwithstanding the level of planning, we are continually dealing with being surprised. We get startled. We recover. We are disappointed. We adjust. Mostly-with Wisdom intact-we manage.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Wise, Wisdom, Levels

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.69, Ballantine Books

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• I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.

  Kathleen Battle

  Song, Ethos, Feelings

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• Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

  Diane Ackerman

  Technology, Hurricanes, Reminders

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• At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Home, Common Sense, Decision

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• Work is already underway today on creating unique high-precision weapons systems and manoeuvrable combat units that will have an unpredictable flight trajectory for the potential opponent. Along with the means for overcoming anti-missile defences that we already have, these new types of arms will enable us to maintain what is definitely one of the most important guarantees of lasting peace, namely, the strategic balance of forces.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Unique, Creating

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• Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wall, Order, People

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• The match has become quite unpredictable, but it still looks as though Arsenal will win the cup

  John Motson

  Soccer, Winning, Looks

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• This, she thought, isn’t just for today. It’s for everything. For the heartache that still felt like a punch in the gut each time it struck, fresh as new, at unpredictable moments; for the smiling lies and the mental images she couldn’t shake; for the shame of having been so naive. For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

  Laini Taylor

  Loneliness, Lying, Heartache

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• Unpredictable as a hungry lion, he might be feared by everyone else, but he never ripped out my throat, only licked me, and, if his tongue was a little rough sometimes, it was worth it to walk beside the king of the jungle.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kings, Hungry Lion, Littles

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.18, Delacorte Press

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• I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love... There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course. I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up. Because love is unpredictable and it's frustrating and it's tragic and it's beautiful.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Love Is, Ideas

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• Boys are unpredictable. This maybe not be news, but I'm starting to think it's one of the best things about them.

  Kate Brian

  Boys, Thinking, News

  Kate Brian (2008). “Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right in front of you spins out of control and crashes. How you prepare for those unpredictable occurrences determines whether you live or die. Always leave an empty lane to your right or left for escape.

  Ted Dekker

  Car, Balance, Tunes

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• I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

  Maya Banks

  Scare, Violent, Form

  Maya Banks (2011). “Hidden Away”, p.51, Penguin

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• My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]

  John Burnside

  Father, Men, Might

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• I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

  John Green

  Real, Obvious Things, Voice

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.197, Penguin

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• I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

  Christian Bale

  Opposites, Ideas, People

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• The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is.

  Archie Panjabi

  Wife, Good Wife, Predictable

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• Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.

  Ruby Dee

  Journey, Profound, Understanding

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• Plasma seems to have the kinds of properties one would like for life. It's somewhat like liquid water--unpredictable and thus able to behave in an enormously complex fashion. It could probably carry as much information as DNA does. It has at least the potential for organizing itself in interesting ways.

  Freeman Dyson

  Fashion, Science, Dna

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• One cannot help but be impressed by this music. The musicianship is top-notch, the performances unpredictable and full of surprises, and Eric Starr's writing is consistently inventive.

  Scott Yanow

  Writing, Eric, Helping

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• Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Insecure, Feels, Best Sellers

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