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We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.
Mary Mccarthy
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Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.

Louis Pasteur

— Translation from The Life of Pasteur, p. 140

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There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops and horizontal barn dancing.

Anthony Lane

— On the film adaptation of  The Scarlet Letter, directed by Roland Joffe  . In Nobody's Perfect:  Writings from The NewYorker (2002).

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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

fawn brodie

— Los Angeles Times Home Magazine (Feb. 20, 1977)

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I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.

elizabeth hand

— "Elizabeth Hand on Mortal Love at HarperCollins (2004)

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"This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought.

roger ebert

— Review of Jason X (26 April 2002)

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Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.

David Hume

— § 9.13 : Conclusion, Pt. 1

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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

Guy de Maupassant

— "Boule de Suif"

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There is one forecast of which you can already be sure: someday renewable energy will be the only way for people to satisfy their energy needs. Because of the physical, ecological and (therefore) social limits to nuclear and fossil energy use, ultimately nobody will be able to circumvent renewable energy as the solution, even if it turns out to be everybody’s last remaining choice. The question keeping everyone in suspense, however, is whether we shall succeed in making this radical change of energy platforms happen early enough to spare the world irreversible ecological mutilation and political and economic catastrophe.


— Hermann Scheer, Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social and Technological Case for Renewable Energy (2006)

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