If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people’s professional lives, and perhaps in their emotional life as well, is that they lose interest in the third act. You sort of get tired, and indifferent, and, sometimes, defensive. And you kind of lose your capacity for astonishment — and that’s a great loss, because the world is a very astonishing place.
What I feel fortunate about is that I’m still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that’s the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it.
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I've learned that some memories surprise you and reveal a sharp edge just when you least expect it.
Pittacus LoreI'm just
the reason they married.
Mum says
I was a surprise.
Dad says
I was an accident.
Truth is ...
I am their mistake.
Tags: reason mistake surprise accident married dad mum
What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.
Franz KafkaTags: reality change dreams surprise
Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: surprise
Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
Frank HerbertSociety is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: society common-sense surprise example
I didn't particularly feel like explaining myself to eighteen bewildered people.
Shannon A. ThompsonTags: explanation surprise shock
It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.
Maggie StiefvaterTags: seriousness answer surprise reply
Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.
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