Strange Stories Quotes

• ... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.

  Shannon Hale

  Believe, Happens, Ifs

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.165, A&C Black

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• "True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction, and the vast interval between the two, which is not belief, but the suspension of judgment." Such, perhaps, was true science in Dr. Fenwick's days. But the true science of our modern times proceeds otherwise; it either denies point-blank, without any preliminary investigation, or sits in the interim, between denial and conviction, and, dictionary in hand, invents new Graeco-Latin appellations for non-existing kinds of hysteria!

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Latin, Hands, Two

  "Isis Unveiled". Book by Helena Blavatsky. Volume I, Chapter VII, 1877.

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• Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.

  Robert Stack

  Hands, Space, Looks

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• Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance.

  Jeremy Collier

  Strong, Lying, Vanity

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.122

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• How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those whose entire mental training has conditioned them to believe that the real world is the world which can be satisfactorily explained and managed without the hypothesis of God? I know of only one clue to the answering of that question, only one real hermeneutic of the gospel: a congregation which believes it.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Real, Believe, Training

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• I was very fond of strange stories when I was a child.

  Wu Cheng'en

  Children, Stories, Strange

  Wu Cheng'en (2015). “Monkey: Journey to the West”, p.3, Dalriada Books ltd

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• I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

  China Mieville

  Thinking, Interesting, Vision

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• I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.

  James Rollins

  Book, Writing, Animal

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• I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.

  Michael Koryta

  Thinking, Ideas, Curiosity

  "Sanctuary Of Suspense: A Lighthouse On 'The Ridge'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. July 10, 2011.

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• Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motor was roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving. "It was weird," he said , "to be going one hundred fifty miles an hour and yet not be going anywhere at all."

  James Keller

  Time, Moving, Roaring

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• It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The alphabet of my DNA shapes certain words, but the story is not told. I have to tell it myself. What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.

  Jeanette Winterson

  New Beginnings, Dna, Rest Of Life

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• My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.

  Malik Bendjelloul

  Two, Specialty, Stories

  "SUNDANCE FUTURES: Why Malik Bendjelloul’s ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Was the First Buy of Sundance 2012". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. January 21, 2012.

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