Quotes with stranger

  • One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
  • Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
  • A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
  • There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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  • Mark Twain Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anita Brookner A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • John Berger A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Lord Burleigh Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.
    Lord Burleigh
    English statesman
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  • Germaine Greer Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • William Cowper Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Marguerite Duras Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Douglas Jerrold Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Ernest Renan He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Franklin P. Jones Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
    Franklin P. Jones
    American journalist (1908 - 1980)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore I came to your shore as a stranger, I lived in your home as a guest, I leave your threshold as a friend, my earth.
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Harriet Tubman I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
    Harriet Tubman
    American abolitionist and humanitarian (1822 - 1913)
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  • Sri Sarada Devi I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
    Sri Sarada Devi
     
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  • A. E. Housman I, a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Samuel Johnson It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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