"I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing."

-- Rita Dove

#Surprise Quotes #Surprise Me Quotes

“Mark Twain on George Ade's writing: I have been reading him [Ade] again, and my admiration overflows all limits. How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master's hand.”
“Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.”

Source : "Reasoning with Sean Paul". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. October 1, 2002.
“I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.”
“I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.”
“I never had a career before I had the lips, so my lips have had their own career!”
“Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.”

Source : Letter to Alban Berg, "Anton von Webern" by Malcolm Hayes, (p. 71), 1995.
“God deliver me from the dread asbestos of â€œother things.â€ Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.”
“Work hard, and then let the universe take you where you're meant to go.”

Source : "Orange Is the New Black Star Alysia Reiner: Channeling Compassion Into Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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