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  1. John le Carré _ The Russia House

    ... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...
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  2. Terry Pratchett _ Feet of Clay

    Samuel Vimes dreamed about Clues. He had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them. They got in the way. And he distrusted the kind of person who'd take one look at another man and say in a lordly voice to his companion, "Ah, my dear sir, I can tell you nothing except that he is a left-handed stonemason who has spent some years in the merchant navy and has recently fallen on hard times," and then unroll a lot of supercilious commentary about calluses and stance and the state of a man's boots, when exactly the same comments could apply to a man who was wearing his old clothes because he'd been doing a spot of home bricklaying for a new barbecue pit, and had been tattooed once when he was drunk and seventeen* and in fact got seasick on a wet pavement. What arrogance! What an insult to the rich and chaotic variety of the human experience!
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  3. J.K. Rowling _ Harry Potter and the Deathly

    Understanding was coming so fast, it seemed to bypass thought.
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  4. Madeleine L'Engle _ A Wrinkle in Time

    When I get this feeling, this compulsion, I always do what it tells me. I can't explain where it comes from or how I get it, and it doesn't happen very often. But I obey it. And this afternoon I had a feeling that I must come over to the haunted house. That's all I know, kid. I'm not holding anything back. Maybe it's because I'm supposed to meet you. You tell me.
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  5. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    Children are very wiseintuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.
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  6. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ Love in the Time of Cholera

    He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had done in his life had been in vain, that he could not go on: it was the end.
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  7. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.
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  8. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.
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  9. Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being

    I don't know why I keep asking you these questions. It's not like I expect you to answer, and even if you did answer, how would I know? But maybe that doesn't matter. Maybe when I ask you a question like "You doing okay?" you should just tell me, even if I can't hear you, and then I'll just sit here and imagine what you might say.You might say, "sure thing, Nao. I'm okay. I'm doing just fine.""Okay, awesome" I would say to you, and then we would smile at each other across time like we were friends, because we are friends by now, aren't we?
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  10. Jack Williamson _ Darker Than You Think

    Perhaps that was just a hunch."Barbee shivered again. He knew that he himself possessed what he called the "nose for news" - an intuitive perception of human motivations and the impending events that would spring from them. It wasn't a faculty he could analyze or account for, but he knew that it wasn't unusual. Most successful reporters possessed it, he believed - even though, in an age of skepticism for everything except mechanistic materialism, they wisely denied it.That dim sense had been useful to him - on those summer field trips, before Mendrick turned him out, it had led him to more than one promising prehistoric site, simply because he somehow knew where a band of wild hunters would prefer to camp, or to dig a comrade's grave.Commonly, however, that uncontrolled faculty had been more curse than blessing. It made him too keenly aware of all that people thought and did around him, kept him troubled with an uneasy alertness. Except when he was drunk. He drank too much, and knew that many other newsmen did. That vague sensitivity, he believed; was half the reason.
    book-quoteintuitionsensitivityalcoholism

  11. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.
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  12. Michael Lewis _ The Undoing Project: A

    Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions of authority...{it is} quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.
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