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Letter "A" » astonish
«Try to cook so that it will surprise a little, agreeably and astonish slightly, without shocking.»
«Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.»
Author: Miriam Beard
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astonish, Atlantic, bizarre, go across, Pacific, similarity, the Pacific
«With an apple I will astonish Paris.»
«The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.»
«By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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«The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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astonish, dim, discoveries, human existence, Novelists, novels, perpetually, radiated, radiates, radiating
«Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.»
«Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.»
«Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
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aroused, astonish, dreamed, possessing, put into action, revolutionize, revolutionized, revolutionizing, slumbering, slumbers
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