Strangeness Quotes - Page 7

• If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

  Paul Gauguin

  Shadow, Starting, Figures

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• The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Live Life, Past, Bears

  'Strange Interlude' (1928) pt. 2, act 8

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• At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.

  Orson Scott Card

  Genre Is, Challenges, Innovation

  Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks (2010). “The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.21, Writer's Digest Books

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• Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

  Peter J. Daniels

  Poetry, Literature, Firsts

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• Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.

  Terence McKenna

  Block, Long, Enough

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