Stranger Quotes - Page 32

• For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.

  Tennessee Williams

  Hands, Unseen, World

  Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.128, New Directions Publishing

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• Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)

  Walter Isaacson

  Book, Ipods, Sitting

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.512, Simon and Schuster

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• there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an amazing connection, a sense that this cloth binds us in some kind of universal sisterhood.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Girl, Sisterhood, Connections

  Randa Abdel-Fattah (2014). “Does My Head Look Big in This?”, p.25, Scholastic UK

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• You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People

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• Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers.

  Corey Taylor

  Honest, Intention, Proximity

  Corey Taylor (2012). “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good”, p.106, Da Capo Press

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• History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.

  Michelle Sagara

  Shadow, Legends, Guides

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Shadow”, p.236, MIRA

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• You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. There’s an expression on their face, or a tone in their voice, or a way they walk, that you’ve never ever seen before. Like they’ve kept it hidden. Until their brother dies. Or their son. I remember those days and they were like these strangers and I wanted to say, Who are you people?

  Melina Marchetta

  Brother, Son, Expression

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• The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.

  David Sedaris

  Dark, Hair, Curls

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• Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Knows, Dies

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.192, Bantam

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• That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?

  Franny Billingsley

  Stories, Handsome

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.2, A&C Black

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• It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Believe, Limits, Absurd

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.134, Stanford University Press

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• Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Dog, Sleep, Simple

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “The Marriage of Sticks”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.

  Bob Dylan

  Night, Lasts, Last Night

  Song: Standing In The Doorway, Album: Time Out of Mind, 1997

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• My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

  Richard Bach

  Home, Airplane, Flying

  Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Always a woman and child. Mam finds them wandering the streets and if they ask, Could you spare a few pennies, miss? her heart breaks. She never has money so she invites them home for tea and a bit of fried bread and if it's a bad night she'll let them sleep by the fire on a pile of rags in the corner. The bread she gives them always means less for us and if we complain she says there are always people worse off and we can surely spare a little from what we have.

  Frank McCourt

  Children, Home, Heart

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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• A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?

  Albert Camus

  Wall, Bumps, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.20, Vintage

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• I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

  Jack Kerouac

  Scared, Ghost, Road Life

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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• Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.

  Gayle Forman

  Mean, Together, Target

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.115, Penguin

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• She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Waiting, Made

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• Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized or mental.' 'Indeed, they're not mental,' said Mother indignantly. 'Nonsense, Mother... Look at Aunt Bertha, keeping flocks of imaginary cats... and there's Great-Uncle Patrick, who wanders about nude and tells complete strangers how he killed whales with a penknife...They're all bats.

  Gerald Durrell

  Mother, Uncles, Cat

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• It’s sad when friends become enemies. But what’s even worse is when they become strangers.

  Hayley Williams

  Enemy

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• So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Interesting, Important, Involvement

  "The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje " by Annie Proulx, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2011.

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• But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Grieving, Wife, Forever

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Control Of Your Life, Giving, Ruins

  Jeffrey H. Gitomer (1998). “Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless: How to Make Customers Love You, Keep Them Coming Back and Tell Everyone They Know”, Bard

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• Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me what part of me is stranger to you and I'll destroy that part of me.' And she wept to hear his words.

  Melina Marchetta

  Hands, Voice, Body

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