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• Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.

  Heinrich Heine

  Miracle, Matter, Spirit

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• One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Forever, World, Strange

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2006). “The Secret Garden”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Love makes you do strange things.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Strange

  Charles M. Schulz, Natalie Shaw (2015). “Meet the Peanuts Gang!: With Fun Facts, Trivia, Comics, and More!”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.

  Norton Juster

  Cities, Attention, Lasts

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.103, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task's undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hope, Morning, Ocean

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• Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

  Jock Sturges

  Beauty, Strange, Physical Beauty

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free country. But for a Christian sect to claim ownership of the legal definition of a human relationship is way out of order.

  Simon Jenkins

  Christian, Country, Baby

  "The marriage of church and state is anything but gay" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.

  Gladys Taber

  Moving, Hero, Men

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• Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Lying, Writing

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• Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.

  Adam Gopnik

  Heart, Hands, Paris

  Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

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• I love wearing trackies to lounge around the house in and the strange thing is, it doesn’t matter how many new ones I get I still tend to feel most comfortable in my old ones.

  Miranda Kerr

  House, Matter, Strange

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• What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.

  John L'Heureux

  Animal, Sound, Strange

  John L'Heureux (2002). “An Honorable Profession”, p.17, Grove Press

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• That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

  Carsten Jensen

  Stories, Strange, Pleasure

  Carsten Jensen (2011). “We, the Drowned”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

  Lars von Trier

  Men, Anxiety, Cameras

  "I'm a control freak - but I was not in control" by Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2006.

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• Grand Slams are funny things. You have to try to find a way to get through the first week and put yourself in a position in the second week. A lot of strange things happen.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Funny Things, Trying, Way

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• One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.

  Michael Robotham

  Balance, Together, Strange

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• Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

  Bram Stoker

  Thinking, Mad, Laughing

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.166, Hayes Barton Press

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• What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Spring, Alive, Strange

  Kobayashi Issa, “What A Strange Thing”

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• The strange thing about seeing someone for first time in nine years is the way they look totally different, just for a second, a split second, and then they look at you the way they always have, as if no time has passed between you.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Years, Way, Firsts

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.179, Hachette UK

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• What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cake, Numbers, Chocolate

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• A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

  Steve Wozniak

  People, Hacking, Strange

  Saturday keynote speech, The Fifth HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) Conference, July 10, 2004.

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• You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work.

  Douglas Coupland

  Order, Wings, Needs

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.168, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

  J. K. Rowling

  Time, Giving, Potters

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• It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

  Graham Greene

  Believe, Parent, Strange

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Drinking, Food, Wine

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.529

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