Strange Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research…

— Simon Schama

“His dreams brightened. The vanished world returned.”

— Cormac McCarthy

I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living in one!...…

— Louis Auchincloss

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

— Richard Peck

The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is…

— Simone de Beauvoir

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar…

— Cornelia Funke

“When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the…

— Toba Beta

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had…

— Rupert Murdoch

I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very…

— Judith Durham

A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.…

— Paul Simon

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us…

— Horace

It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

— Anthony Hecht