It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown. — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
“familiarity with the secret place is familiarity with the glory place. Abide in his presence.” — Ikechukwu Joseph Copy Share Image
but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
I don't need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're… — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image
You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Similar to the familiarity I've always had with the ball, there's this familiarity that the game has given me over years of… — Tobin Heath Copy Share Image
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
“And all had, after long acquaintance, at last understood that familiarity with a place will lead not to absolute knowledge but only… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
When you've worked in the same place for 13 years, when things go well, you know how to keep it going well.… — Brad Stevens Copy Share Image
Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political willof others; it is, through the analyses that he does in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little… — Tom Freston Copy Share Image
The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
“I am a wall. I am a wall. I am a wall. I am a giant and I tower above you. I… — Tania De Rozario Copy Share Image
Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“If I had hoped to skirt the sense of being a stranger in the world by coming to Ghana, then disappointment awaited… — Saidiya V. Hartman Copy Share Image
But how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of… — Heber Doust Curtis Copy Share Image
“People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without question - as grace… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
