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• True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.

  Kathleen Norris

  Heart, Receiving, Dignity

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• I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

  Mark Haddon

  People, Mets, Hard

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• She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Soccer, Team, Sky

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• "This is me, remember!" retorts Suze. "I know what you're like! You used to throw all your bank statements into the trash and hope a complete stranger would pay off your bills!" This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Secret, Use, Pay

  "Shopaholic Ties the Knot". Book by Sophie Kinsella, 2002.

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• I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way.

  Alan Moore

  Lonely, Pain, Solitude

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• They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

  Deb Caletti

  Might

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate this fear. I hate this. I hate this world. I hate it that nobody needs me. I don’t own this world. I’ve had enough. It’s not supposed to be my fault. Only now.. Only now that I realized.. I hate this world now, living in this world where ‘promise’, ‘bond’ and ‘eternity’ don’t exist, and living in a world full fo strangers is a very, very scary thing. Scared that there’s no guarantee that I’ll be loved. You can’t be living with people surrounding you forever. You just cant. The world is too scary. - Akito

  Natsuki Takaya

  Hate, Guarantees That, People

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• Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life - and maybe even please a few strangers.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Writing, Humility

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kid works for CHERUB CHERUB agents are aged between 10 and 17. They live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail.

  Robert Muchamore

  Running, Children, Real

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• Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

  Diane Setterfield

  Book, People, Human Life

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• I fear that I will do something to bring harm to those I love," Froi said. "So I follow their rules to ensure that I won't." "But what if you bring harm or fail to protect those you don't know? Or don't love? Will you care as much?" "Probably not." "Then choose another bond. One written by yourself. Because it is what you do for strangers that counts in the end.

  Melina Marchetta

  What If, Care, Failing

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• Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen my brother nor my sisters before; and, though I had sometimes heard of them, and felt a curious interest in them, I really did not understand what they were to me, or I to them. We were brothers and sisters, but what of that? Why should they be attached to me, or I to them? Brothers and sisters were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers. I heard the words brother and sisters, and knew they must mean something; but slavery had robbed these terms of their true meaning.

  Frederick Douglass

  Brother, Mean, Grandmother

  Frederick Douglass (1855). “My Bondage and My Freedom ...”, p.48

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• Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Appreciate

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.399, Faber & Faber

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• What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love Is, Men, Giving

  Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse (1970). “Paris Spleen, 1869”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• Like a lot of people, I’ve always enjoyed commenting on strangers’ outfits. Unlike a lot of people, I now had a new megaphone to do it with. And, let me tell you, commenting on people’s hilarious clothing choices through a megaphone makes it so much better.

  Demetri Martin

  People, Choices, Outfits

  Demetri Martin (2011). “This Is A Book”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Athens, New Friends

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.189

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• In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends

  Kobayashi Issa

  Cities, Tree, Fields

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• We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

  Deb Caletti

  Children, Two, People

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• They're just talking. They're flirting kind of like they're strangers, but at the same time they also seem to know each other really well. I don't get it." "So they're taking it slow. What's wrong with that?" Bill asked. "Kids today, they just want things to go fast-- boom boom BOOM.

  Lauren Kate

  Kids, Flirting, Talking

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• The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.

  Robert Fulghum

  Inspirational, Men, Long

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• Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Love Is, Giving

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• People are strange when you're a stranger.

  Jim Morrison

  People, Strange, Norwegian Wood

  "Song: "People are strange" ("Strange Days")". 1967.

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• He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Garden, Years, Afternoon

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.105, Broadview Press

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• And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Realization, Action, Moments

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2014). “Icehenge”, p.33, Macmillan

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• ...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Art, Sadness, People

  Marianne Wiggins (2008). “The Shadow Catcher: A Novel”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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