Astonishment Quotes
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Her disappointment was minor compared to her astonishment. “Again I didn’t win? But last year I didn’t win also!”
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A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.
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A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.
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The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.
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There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.
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A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.
