Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.'… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Don't be the guy that sat spouting how greatly succesful he was to a random stranger at the airport only to find… — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
“I had never imagined I would be having a conversation with a stranger about consents regarding my body, someone who was just… — Ndeupewa Copy Share Image
In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
And now we're apart and you're just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my… — Gaby Dunn Copy Share Image
There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
New York is a glamorous city, constituted mostly of nobodies. They crave the lights, and if they tell you differently, they're lying.… — Charlie LeDuff Copy Share Image
The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I don't understand you... sometimes it seems as if I know your every move, your every thought, and then, the next moment… — Neena Gupta Copy Share Image
All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“It's like I'm caught between two versions of myself. The person I used to be and the person i'm too scared to… — Jessica Brody Copy Share Image
The Bible says that as long as we are here on earth, we are strangers in a foreign land. There are enemies… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house.… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I mean obviously we're all dealing with a lot more strangers due to the web. I'd say it has more to do… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel,… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity, Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Love and hate hold hands always so it made natural sense that they'd get confused by upset married folk in the wee… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
“I understand right enough,” the stranger said slowly. “I just wanted to make sure you did. You had the greatest gift of… — Philip Van Doren Stern Copy Share Image
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“And New York City is details too... It's full of people who have no idea they're really just art to other passersby.… — Hannah Brencher Copy Share Image
“The attraction remains because there is something about him that I can't reach, something strange and estranging. I like seeing him from… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
Everybody's playing the game but nobody's rules are the same... Never make a promise or plan. Take a little love where you… — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
When you're walking home at night, do you even get creeped out and even though it's silly and embarrassing you just want… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
CEREMONY OF FLIES hits the road like a nitrous-fueled GTO...and then pulls the ultimate stunt of getting better. What starts as a… — Lisa Morton Copy Share Image
I dream that I have found us both again, With spring so many strangers' lives away, And we, so free, Out walking… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
You know, this is why I just don't answer the door (unless I know who's arriving). I don't want to fend off… — Ann Althouse Copy Share Image
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