Familiar Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

“It felt familiar. But just because it was familiar, it didn’t make it easy.”

— F.K. Preston

“The familiar was far away, while the bizarre was close at hand.”

— Ted Chiang

“Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.”

— Tierney Gearon

“I was a stranger in a familiar land.”

— John Connolly

“It looked vaguely, frustratingly familiar, but I couldn’t tell whether this was because I actually remembered it or because I knew I should.”

— Tana French

“There aren’t weird things; there are only familiar and unfamiliar things!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“And perhaps I understood it all wrong, but I understood it and that was the novelty.”

— Samuel Beckett

“The more familiar that a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things.”

— Dean Koontz

“One could not forget what one had never known.”

— Boris Zubry

“Creativity. Taking something enormously strange and somehow making it strangely familiar.”

— Jim Lewis

“There was an awful lot to be said for familiarity, if you thought about it. It was an extremely underrated virtue, ignorable until the…

— Nick Hornby

“few things are more familiar, he supposed, than finding oneself a stranger.”

— R. Scott Bakker