Stranger Quotes

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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would… — Emily Bronte
He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more good… — Michael Cunningham
Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each… — Derek Walcott
There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a… — Barbara Kingsolver
Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us. — Leo Buscaglia
I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is… — William Gibson
And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he… — Charles Dickens
It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it… — Eugene O'Neill
How strange to have failed as a social creatureâ€”even criminals do not fail that wayâ€”they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I thought Marcus was going to be in my life forever. Then I thought I was wrong. Now heâ€™s back. But this time I know… — Megan McCafferty
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind. — Kurt Vonnegut
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are… — Cesare Pavese
I want to be your stranger across a crowded room. — Jeffrey Archer
He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere… — Thomas Pynchon
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. — Elizabeth Kostova
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that… — Salman Rushdie
â€¦for a true Christian, all strangers are Jesus. — A.A. Attanasio
A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the… — Ray Bradbury
Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives. A stranger appears… — Dean Koontz

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