Stranger Quotes

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A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an… — Aldous Huxley
I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do? — Libba Bray
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen — Rod McKuen
And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and… — Paul Auster
The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were. — Kurt Vonnegut
Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short… — Alice Walker
The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress." --Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I… — Jack Kerouac
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish… — Thomas Pynchon
Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane… — James Dashner
Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily. — Anne Lamott
I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning. I'm drinking hot chocolate in the Village wif girls--all… — Sapphire
She was startled. "But you're human, aren't you?" In some ways yes. But in other ways I'm a stranger to your kind. I have a… — Deepak Chopra
...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take… — Italo Calvino
I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts?… — Charles de Lint
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy
Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change… — Ted Dekker
Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they… — Randall Munroe

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