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Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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
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Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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The middle-aged stranger whom I met by chance upon the lower rocks at Mary's Neck, that salt-washed promontory of the New England coast, was at first taciturn but became voluble when a little conversation developed the fact that we were both from the Midland country.
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
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The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
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The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
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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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There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
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