Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable."
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Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel."
Robert A. Heinlein
Science Fiction Author
"History is never surprising after it happens."
Joyce Carol Oates
Author, Poet
"There is something thrilling in the mimesis of life's surprising unfolding."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another, when you do differ."
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"Desperation can make a person do surprising things."
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"Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once."
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"I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it."
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"It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die."
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"Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying."
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"[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation."
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"Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them."
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