Strangeness Quotes - Page 6

• There is no beauty without some strangeness

  Edgar Allan Poe

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• Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.

  Yann Martel

  Goodbye, Dream, Heart

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Men, Space

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.65, Image

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• It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Greatness, Exaggeration Is, Imagination

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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• I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration is a deepened and highly sensitized feeling with those persons who feel alien in our country. I can feel the strangeness they feel because it is something I have experienced in a different area.

  Barbara Jordan

  Country, Issues, Feelings

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• An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

  Graham Greene

  Mercy Of God, Mercy, Cathedrals

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• Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

  Dan Simmons

  Perfect, Creative, Mixtures

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Hyperion”, p.261, Spectra

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• You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.

  Jean Lorrain

  Fear, Reality, Invisible

  Jean Lorrain (2002). “Nightmares of an Ether-drinker”

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• Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Indispensable, Condiments

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.206, CUP Archive

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• Each family functions in their own way, by rules reinvented daily. The strangeness of each of us is somehow accommodated so that there can be such a thing as family and we can all live for some time at least in the same house. Normal is what you know.

  Niall Williams

  House, Way, Normal

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• To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.

  Sara Genn

  Baby, Eye, Appreciate

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• My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

  Anthony Doerr

  Silence, Pockets, Language

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• It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

  Miguel Syjuco

  These Days, Kill Me, Justification

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan

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• I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?

  Florence Welch

  Song, Father, Nice

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• If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

  Paul Gauguin

  Shadow, Starting, Figures

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• A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

  Walter Pater

  Art, Elements, Blossoming

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Live Life, Past, Bears

  'Strange Interlude' (1928) pt. 2, act 8

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• Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.

  Terence McKenna

  Block, Long, Enough

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• At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.

  Orson Scott Card

  Genre Is, Challenges, Innovation

  Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks (2010). “The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.21, Writer's Digest Books

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• Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

  Peter J. Daniels

  Poetry, Literature, Firsts

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• We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Perfect, Imagination, Elements

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

  Patricia Cornwell

  Upset, Surprise

  Patricia Cornwell (2011). “Patricia Cornwell FIVE SCARPETTA NOVELS”, p.2195, Penguin

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• The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Nature, Writing, Reality

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• Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

  Sebastian Smee

  Photography, Precision

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