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Annie Dillard quote: "I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at..."
I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. Annie Dillard
The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness). Christopher Hitchens
In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading. Henryk Sienkiewicz
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified..."
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction. Barbara Kingsolver
I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband. Augusten Burroughs
His hair was a curling mess and he showed the proper desregard for sartorial elegance which Harry had always seen as a sign of reliability in a person. Neat men always struck him as desperate and ambitious. Peter Carey
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop. Gustave Flaubert
He wants money for nothing, without waiting or working! We’ve grown used to having everything ready made, to walking on crutches, to having our food chewed for us. Then the great hour struck, and every man showed himself in his true colors. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Kazuo Ishiguro quote: "One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite..."
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event. Kazuo Ishiguro
LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably. Oscar Wilde
The boat struck the bank full tilt. The dreamer, the joyous oarsman, lay on his back at the bottom of the boat, his heels in the air. Kenneth Grahame
Norman Vincent Peale quote: "Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them...."
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. Norman Vincent Peale
Espinoza experienced something similar, though slightly different in two respects. First, the need to be near Liz Norton struck some time before he got back to his apartment in Madrid. By the time he was on the plane he’d realized that she was the perfect woman, the one he’d always hoped to find, and he began to suffer. Second, among the ideal images of Norton that passed at supersonic speed through his head as the plane flew toward Spain at four hundred miles an hour, there were more sex... Roberto Bolano
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth. George Orwell
Anyway, it struck me now in a different light, as being yet another bit of personal meaning which had ben taken from me, stripped off like clothes I'd only borrowed or stolen. I had maybe the least persuasive case for self-pity of any human soul on the planet. Or anyway, the most hilarious. Jonathan Lethem

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