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
“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
For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
“Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.” — Scott Lynch 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
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
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
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
To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don't want to pull… — Jonathan Nolan 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“Familiarity provides us with a sense of security. We repeat the same old patterns because we know what the outcome will be.… — Charles Duncan Copy Share Image
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
contrary to what many believed, my father was kind and tenderhearted, especially towards his family. His forbidding sternness seemed to melt into… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
