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Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.
— Albert Payson Terhune
I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.
— Aleksandra Mir
There is no stranger under the cherry tree.
— Kobayashi Issa
Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.
— Ani DiFranco
Beware the dark stranger! He rides a unicycle!
— Stephen King
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
— Steven Pressfield
Mackenzie flinched. Struggling to breathe, she stood up and walked over to the table.
— Yawatta Hosby
I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received.
— Anita Sarkeesian
It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.
— James Baldwin
is usually the refuge of incompetence." Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
— Garrett Schwanke
No one could become stranger than the person you once loved
— Erich Maria Remarque
I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.
— Emily Dickinson
Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.
— Edward Hirsch
I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.
— Lisa Kleypas
As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.
— T. S. Eliot
I have seen the impossible. I have seen great and terrible wonders, and I tell you, the world is a vaster and stranger place than ever I had reckoned.
— Jacqueline Carey
If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?
— Jules Feiffer
The deeper we go, the fewer the lights, the dirtier the buildings, the stranger the animals, but the more brilliant the graffiti.
— Pierce Brown
He had evidently forgotten all about the dark stranger,
— Bram Stoker
The way I see it, a stranger feels like a stranger; a friend feels like a friend. Simple.
— N.K. Jemisin
And a soulif it is to know itself
must look
into its own soul:
the stranger and enemy, we've seen him in the mirror. — Giorgos Seferis
A smile is the best compliment of love for a friend and for a stranger.
— Debasish Mridha
The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger ...
— Billy Graham
Strange are the ways of the mind, and stranger is the fuel of emotion.
— Dylan Lee Peters
In the world I amAlways a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence — Bei Dao
Don't look over your shoulder,don't look in the sky
the ocean is a stranger,
the sun is a lie. — Lloyd Poast
Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.
— Pseudonymous Bosch
We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
— Bernard Malamud
What better time to be kind to a beautiful stranger than when she's weak, and rocking a schnoz like the Godfather?
— Leslea Tash
Live as a stranger on the earth.For this earth of ours is no planet. — Rasu-Yong Tugen
Each of us has always hoped that a stranger would come who would scatter holy water on the image of the other and lay it for ever
— Rebecca West
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[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.
— Ayelet Waldman
Life is stranger than any of us expected,There is a somber, imponderable fate.
Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty. — Richard Eberhart
My Scottie refused to go for a walk with a friend of the house, but she would joyously accompany any stranger who drove a car.
— Mazo De La Roche
Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.
— George R R Martin
Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway".
— Milton Friedman
Michael was not himself. He lay on the bed of a stranger,
— James Dashner
Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.
— George Santayana
I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
— Beau Willimon
He decided not to shoot the tall stranger, mainly because he admired his soft felt hat.
— Larry McMurtry
When I come back to you, if I come back to you, will I know you? Will you be the city of my memory? Or will you be a stranger?
— Robert Jackson Bennett
The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.
— Mark Twain
what stranger can compete with a video that documents the budding friendship of two baby hippopotamuses? No one, that's who.
— Aziz Ansari
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
— Eric Hoffer
I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream, the rain changes everything.
— Karen Hesse
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
— George Santayana
The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Monsters don't dress like monsters; they dress like humans. Even stranger, they rarely know they're the monsters.
— Dennis Lehane
The Universe is stranger than we imagine!
— Albert Einstein
If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
— John Berger
The fuck are you staring at? I hiss at the stranger staring at me in my rearview. Oh, wait, that's me.
— Sean Murphy
I look at the world and my own life as if I were a stranger. I wish for nothing, except perhaps that time would stop.
— Amin Maalouf
The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The smile of a stranger can lead you into your joy
— Liz Hester
I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.
— Rachael Yamagata
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.
— Enoch Powell
He wondered how many other people were lucky enough to have an entire universe of need satisfied by one blond-haired man.
— John Wiltshire
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
— Charles Dickens
I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.
— Juan Goytisolo
So visibly shaken by some recent loss of principle that it would have been noticed by a stranger across the aisle
— John Cheever
Stranger: Do you believe in Jesus, my friend?Foreigner: O yes, I do but who the hell are you? — Toba Beta
You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
— Ramana Maharshi
An exile, ill in heart and frame,A wanderer, weary of the way;
A stranger, without love's sweet claim
On any heart, go where I may! — Frances Sargent Osgood
We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger
— Gordon Livingston
When two alien cultures meet, the stronger must transform the weaker with love or hate. - Damon Knight, "Stranger Station" (1956)
— Gary Westfahl
Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.
— Joyce Meyer
Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees ...
— Bob Dylan
I was in the midst of an ocean of my fellow-men, and yet a perfect stranger to every one.
— Frederick Douglass
Just as you wouldn't allow a destructive stranger into your home, don't allow harmful, unchecked thoughts to occupy space in your mind.
— Shannon Tanner
Are you strange like me, are you insane? Are you the wildfire, that loves pouring rain...
— J. Limbu
The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.
— Richard Powers
If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.
— Catherine Booth
I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not
— Robert A. Heinlein
The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Even the disciples, who at times could be dense as bricks, realized that the true neighbor was the one who showed mercy to a stranger.
— Scott Russell Sanders
Don't take this the wrong way, but you seem like the strangest stranger I've ever met.
— Elizabeth Knox
In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition.
— Yehudi Menuhin
