“The human capacity for denial and rationalization is always shocking, but never surprising.”
David H. Levy (1948) Canadian astronomer
Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)
“I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas.”
The Zookeeper's Wife (2008)
Context: I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
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“I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.”
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“Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.”
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“My whole life has largely been one of surprises.”
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
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“That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.”
Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds
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Stray Birds (1916)
“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
comment at press conference for Februrary 9, 2007, fundraising gala benefit dinner at Gloria and Emilio Estefans' home on Star Island, near Miami, Florida (cbs4.com January 16, 2007)
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“Life is full of little surprises.
Time travel is full of big ones.”
David Gerrold book The Man Who Folded Himself
Source: The Man Who Folded Himself (1973), p. 46