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• Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

  Claire Holden Rothman

  Regret, Missing, Strange

  Claire Holden Rothman (2011). “Heart Specialist”, p.32, Oneworld Publications

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• long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Travel, Kindness, Lying

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• . . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in . . .

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Journey, Long, Mind

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• It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.

  Katharine Tynan

  People, Dying, Strange

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• The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping.

  Bill Nye

  People, Shapes, Might

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• It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that.

  Amy Poehler

  Fun, Past, Self

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• You've a very important, early decision to make in your life: are you going to be alone, or are you going to be with somebody else? Are you going to be sane, or not lonely? A couple is a strange thing; it's an organism that's half as intelligent as the most intelligent member. And you both know who it is!

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Lonely, Couple

  "Dylan Moran: What It Is". Video, 2009.

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• I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path that you can follow; there’s very few people doing this that you can look to and pinpoint the mistakes. It hasn’t changed since I was little. You have interests and follow them and strange things happen, organically or not.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Mistake, Years, Careers

  "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

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• I'm not very good at the accordion. If I played guitar, I wouldn't be on anyone's album. But because I play the accordion and no one else does, I end up doing strange things.

  Daniel Handler

  Guitar, Play, Doe

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2005.

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• I did a lot of strange things. But I am a bad Catholic that's for sure. Although I think it's difficult to believe in evil.

  Lars von Trier

  Believe, Thinking, Evil

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• In LA you can't tell the teenagers and the moms apart, which is so strange to me. And then it's like, "Who is leading who?" Are the moms emulating the daughters? In which case we're going backwards - that's not how it goes - the mothers teach the daughters how to be. It's a very strange thing to me.

  Laura Benanti

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I read about in the grocery store tabloids my mom bought, situations that struck me as compelling, anecdotes I'd heard, images, words, metaphors.

  Dan Chaon

  Mom, Writing, Everyday

  Interview with Tom Barbash, www.believermag.com.

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• I'm doing all sizes. It's a strange thing to stop at a certain size. Women don't, so why should clothes?

  Melissa M

  Clothes, Size, Strange

  "Melissa McCarthy is launching a fashion line for 'all sizes'" by Emily Sher, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Strange, Imagine, Said

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 23, 2012

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• I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless?

  Stuart Rose

  Friday, Retirement, Monday

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• They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is imparted by a seafaring life as readily and surely as a rolling gait and a weather-beaten countenance. A fine imagination is one of the gifts of the ocean-witness the surprising and unlimited power of expression and epithet possessed by the sailor. And a fine imagination will frequently manifest itself in other ways besides swear words.

  Gertrude Bacon

  Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

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• I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

  Brenda Ueland

  Children, Powerful, Writing

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• Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Atheism, Devil, Vices

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Imagination, Strange, Function

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• Strange thing, when they arrested me for the pot, the federal agents, they said, "We're sorry, we really don't want to bust pot people but this is tied into a heroin operation and we have to arrest you."

  George Jung

  Sorry, People, Agents

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange things done in American educationism suddenly become perfectly understandable when we see them not as educational methods but as political maneuvers. We must understand illiteracy, therefore, the root of ignorance and thoughtlessness, as not some inadvertent failure to accomplish what was intended but simply a political arrangement of great value to somebody.

  Richard Mitchell

  Educational, Taken, Ignorance

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• caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.

  Barbara Hurd

  Nature, Adventure, Space

  Barbara Hurd (2005). “Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I guess it would fall into the stalker category more or less. I was being stalked by a mime - silent but maybe deadly. Somehow, this mime would appear on the set of 'Bringing Out the Dead' and start doing strange things. I have no idea how it got past security. Finally, the producers took some action and I haven't seen the mime since. But it was definitely unsettling.

  Nicolas Cage

  Fall, Past, Ideas

  "Nicolas Cage: 'I Want To Keep Romance and Passion Alive in Myself'". Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. November 10, 2009.

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• Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots!

  Neneh Cherry

  Grandmother, Strange, Photo Shoots

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• The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything.

  Walter Tevis

  Television, Strange

  "Fictional character: Thomas Jerome Newton". "The Man Who Fell to Earth", www.imdb.com. March 18, 1976.

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