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Margaret Mitchell
"Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect."
— Margaret Mitchell
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Haruki Murakami
"Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting."
— Haruki Murakami
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Mitch Albom
"There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice. "
— Mitch Albom (For One More Day)
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Hunter S. Thompson
"We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws."
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Paulo Coelho
"When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal."
— Paulo Coelho (Brida)
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Sarah Addison Allen
"Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation"
— Sarah Addison Allen (The Sugar Queen)
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Neal Stephenson
"It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for."
— Neal Stephenson (Anathem)
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"When you bite into a chocolate truffle, you don't want to find oat bran."
— Laura Kalpakian (Educating Waverley)
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George MacDonald
"You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)"
— George MacDonald
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Benjamin Disraeli
"The expected always happens"
— Benjamin Disraeli
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"He wanted to tell her, from the greater perspective he had, that to own only a little talent, like his, was an awful, plaguing thing; that being only a little special meant you expected too much, most of the time, and liked yourself too little. He wanted to assure her that she had missed nothing"
— Mary Robison
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