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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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• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

  Brenda Ueland

  Tired, Listening To Others, People

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Careers, Lucky, Want

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• People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another.

  Damian Thompson

  Attitude, Believe, People

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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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• It's a very strange thing when you make nature illegal.

  Joe Rogan

  Strange, Illegal

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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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• 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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• One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.

  Elmer Bernstein

  Successful, Want, Next

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Stars, Pain

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.175

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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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• Love makes a person do strange things.

  Laini Taylor

  Strange, Persons

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• Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]

  William Shakespeare

  Believe, Strange, Scene

  William Shakespeare, Cynthia Marshall (2004). “As You Like It”, p.228, Cambridge University Press

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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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• Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate

  Rick Riordan

  Karma, Fate, Trying

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• Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.

  Keith Douglas

  Happiness, Hate, Cat

  Keith Douglas (2014). “Alamein to Zem Zem”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left. However, he said, there is one last mystery. There is a large country on the Roof of the World, where strange things happen. There are monks who have the ability to separate mind from body, shamans and oracles who make government decisions, and a God-King who lives in a skyscraper-like palace in the Forbidden City of Llhasa.

  Heinrich Harrer

  Country, Kings, War

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• I think that happiness is a very strange thing. And we really feel that we have a right to this happiness. But I feel like it's constantly fluctuating, and that you can make yourself happy. I think it's an outlook. Having a positive attitude probably sounds like a corny thing to say, but a positive attitude really helps, and respecting your job really helps, and having the support of your family and friends really helps.

  Leelee Sobieski

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. April 21, 2008.

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• Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

  Milt Gross

  Liars, Golf, Men

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• I'm learning to say 'y'all' and, I like grits... Strange things are happening to me.

  Mitt Romney

  Awkward, Grit, Strange

  "'Let Mitt Be Mitt': But Who Was He?". "Morning Edition" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 9, 2012.

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• It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure...you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it.

  Bob Proctor

  Motivational, People, Trying

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