"New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me."
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"... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to them at all times and in all places has often occasioned me as much surprise as pleasure."
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"I like the serendipitous surprises of reality."
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"I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me."
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"One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable."
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"Surprise is the secret of joy."
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"Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation from other hominids). That determines what we call their nature."
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"That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!"
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"The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me."
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"Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest."
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"It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down."
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"Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never."
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"Poetry surprises us with what we already know."
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"21 Jump Street is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests."
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"Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience."
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"Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise."
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"Impulsively, she leaned across the truck and kissed him on the cheek. He glanced over in surprise when she pulled away, but pleasure glowed in his eyes. "What was that for?" "Just seemed like the thing to do," she said. "Well, feel free to do it more often," he encouraged. "I assure you I won't mind."
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"When you've lived as long as I have, nothing much surprises you."
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"We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises."
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"When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act."
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