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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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• 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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• Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

  Michelle Williams

  Missing Someone, Grief, Moving

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• Svengal lay groaning on the turf. His thighs were sheer agony. His buttocks ached. His calf muscles were on fire. Now, afterhe had tumbled off the small pony he was riding and thudded heavily to the turf on the point of his shoulder, the shoulder would hurt too. He concentrated on trying to find one part of his body that wasn't a giant source of pain and failed miserably. He opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was the face of the elderly pony that he had been riding peered down at him. Now what made you do a strange thing like that? The creature seemed to be asking.

  John Flanagan

  Hurt, Pain, Eye

  John Flanagan (2011). “Erak's Ransom (Ranger's Apprentice Book 7)”, p.83, Random House

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• There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.

  Truman Capote

  Real, Strange, Kind

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.107, Vintage

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• There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

  Arthur Machen

  Strange, Forgotten, Obscure

  Arthur Machen (2016). “The Great Return: Machen's Collection”, p.1, VM eBooks

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• When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Baby, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

  Carnie Wilson

  Becoming, Strange, Becoming Famous

  PARADE Readers Chat With Wilson Phillips, parade.com. April 23, 2012.

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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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• 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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• I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.

  Samuel Beckett

  Animal, Men, Strange

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  May, Strange, Tales

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

  Khaled Hosseini

  Lasts, Strange

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.175, A&C Black

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• i realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing to end a friendship, even if you know it's what you want. it's like a death; all of a sudden your experience of a person become finite.

  Melissa Bank

  Giving, Want, Strange

  Melissa Bank (2006). “The Wonder Spot”, p.205, Penguin

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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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• 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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• It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

  Bram Stoker

  Fear, Thinking, Sea

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.18, Zillmann Publishing

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• You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Desire, Strange, Lost

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Beautiful, Memories, Hate

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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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