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- What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things. — Mark Twain
- Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived. — Wynn Bullock
- I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of… — Isabella Rossellini
- Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is… — Rachel Naomi Remen
- Familiar things are a comfort to us all. — Andy Rooney
- A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar. — Louis Nizer
- The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not… — Wallace Stevens
- When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things. — Billy Corgan
- The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. — William Makepeace Thackeray
- Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is… — Rachel Naomi Remen
- It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the… — Elizabeth Gaskell