Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy
To her mother, Janet Auchincloss (22 November 1963); quoted in The Death of a President (1967) by William Manchester
“Civilization didn’t like surprises…”
Source: The Ramal Extraction (2012), Chapter 26
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Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer
Source: Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) Uruguayan writer
As quoted in Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009), p. 17
“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises.”
Jorge Amado (1912–2001) Brazilian writer
Source: Gabriela, Clavo y Canela
A soldier in Argos, speaking of the dead King Agamemnon, Act 2
The Flies (1943)
“I never met a man I didn’t like.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
Nationally syndicated column number 219, Rogers Gets Six Shiny Dimes From Oil King (1927). <ref name=columns2>
Weekly columns
Variant: I never met a man that I didn't like.
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.
“Words like “spokesman” and “touchstone” took me completely by surprise.”
Karl Shapiro (1913–2000) Poet, essayist
Paris Review interview (1986)
Context: Words like “spokesman” and “touchstone” took me completely by surprise. For very real reasons. Not only had I been out of the country when my first two books were published, but I have always been “out of the country” in the sense that I never had what ordinarily is thought of as a literary life, or been part of a literary group. What psychiatrists nowadays call a support system. I never had any of that and still don’t.