“But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costs And benefits of loving those who don't love Strangers. After all, I'm often… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Oh, stop it, I tell myself. Stop looking for links and meaning and explanations. What did De Chirico say? The world is… — Kirsty Eagar Copy Share Image
It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“With someone you’ve always known and have loved without thinking, there’s the strangeness of knowing everything and nothing about them at the… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“Life, we imagine, is familiar enough until we begin to tell it to another. Then, observe the wonder on their faces--sometimes it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research… — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn Copy Share Image
I think in times of bizarre strangeness, what you can and should do is spend time with your family eating lunch or… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Where is the writer,” he began, “who is unstained by any habits of the human, who is the ideal of everything alien… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“I was attracted to the strangeness of his mind as a psychiatrist might have been drawn to an interesting case. he wanted… — Elizabeth Harrower Copy Share Image
Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Again, was it not this same presentiment of death that made it seem so strange to me now that I should never… — Shohei Ooka Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow,… — Antoine Wilson Copy Share Image
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“He was pale as only one state on Bhast dictated—not lacking color necessarily or vitality, certainly. Fey white was more comparable to… — T.A. Miles Copy Share Image
“I look and I look... I must have come to the wrong planet. It's so strange here.” — Sigbjørn Obstfelder Copy Share Image
Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
“The most expuisite beauty has strangeness in its proportions..." Ligeia” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Using someone else's kitchen feels a little like reading their diary. I'm so anxious.” — Yuhta Nishio Copy Share Image
An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
“Will you tolerate the strangeness inside of me, the quirks of my soul?” — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. — Lynn Barber Copy Share Image
Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image