Strange Quotes

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  I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

  Lewis Carroll

  Crazy, Reality, Different

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• In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Successful, Way

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• A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter.

  Bob Dylan

  Dream, Country, Song

  Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Flower, Humility, Winter

  Samuel Rutherford (1885). “Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: Hitherto Unpublished”

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• When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Equality, Unique, Differences

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange life. I don't know how long it'll go on. I don't look past tomorrow. Anything beyond tomorrow seems like hearsay. Or fairy tales.

  Kent Haruf

  Past, Long, Joy

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• Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.

  Meryl Streep

  Wrinkles, Age, Exciting

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• A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Doors, Democracy

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

  C. S. Lewis

  Birthday, Talking, Age

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• That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Gains, Unexpected, Form

  Peter J Carroll (1992). “Liber Kaos”, p.100, Weiser Books

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• Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?

  Anita Desai

  Moving, Rivers, Locks

  Anita Desai (1980). “Clear Light of Day”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I learn to affirm
  Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road,
  wrong turns that lead
  over the border into wonder.

  Denise Levertov

  Truth, Light, Mind

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• Like strange mechanical grotesques,
  Making fantastic arabesques,
  The shadows raced across the blind.

  Oscar Wilde

  Perception, Shadow, Fantasy

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.161, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Thinking, Fiction

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.614, Wordsworth Editions

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• I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.

  Charles Dickens

  Believe, Party, Sarcasm

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.280, Xist Publishing

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• Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

  Wallace Stevens

  Nonsense, Relation, Pierce

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.383, Vintage

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• And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and anger but simply through everyday discoveries, life unwrapped. To see a child touch the piano keys for the first time, to watch a small body slice through the surface of the water in a clean dive, is to experience the shock, not of the new, but of the familiar revisited as though it were strange and wonderful.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Discovery, Piano

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• Strange is the man who practices his religion.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Practice, He Man

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• If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Grace, Found, Advocating

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• When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Beautiful, People

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• What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Beautiful, Teaching, Personality

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Winning, Games, Play

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• You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.

  Dr. Seuss

  Feet, Bird, Places You Go

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

  Jordan Peele

  Blessing, Sometimes, Packages

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• We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

  Edward Abbey

  Littles, Answers, World

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