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  • It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
  • There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.
  • Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.
  • But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
  • Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
  • Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
  • O Time and change! With hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!
  • How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
  • Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
  • There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
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  • William Shakespeare Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • W. M. Thackeray 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow All things must change to something new, to something strange.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Henry David Thoreau As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbara Hambly It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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  • Ben Lovett 'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Goyte has an odd, '80s vibe to it, but that does not mean that I did not like it. Quite the opposite actually. The song is different, and slowly lured me in. The video is just as strange, but definitely enjoyable.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Karl Marx A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Carlos Fuentes A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods (1934) There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Ezra Pound All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Mark Twain All say, How hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bret Harte An hour ago, a Star was falling. A star? There's nothing strange in that. No, nothing; but above the thicket, Somehow it seemed to me that God Somewhere had just relieved a picket.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Jean Genet Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • James Russell Lowell As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Babe Ruth As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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