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Quotes About Strangeness

Pentru mine, ca b?rbat, femeia e stranie ?i str?in? (atât de stranie încât sfâr?e?te prin a deveni "mister")
~ Gabriel Liiceanu
How strange and beautiful human beings are. And how fragile.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It is twenty-two degrees out, and when he wakes his hand is blue where it had rested on the ice. He stands and warms his hands on his jacket. He has never passed out in the middle of a run before. "Madame Olenska," he says. DR. ROSEN GIVES him a full examination. A.J. is in good health for his age, but there's something strange about his eyes that gives the doctor pause.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Está pensando en su cerebro. Le parece extraño que, aunque no funcione bien, su cerebro vaya a servirle para entender por qué no funciona.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The strangeness of that: the feeling that you, or rather I, are at once dreaming and remembering and simultaneously doing something as if for the first time. That
~ Brian Evenson
The world is a strange place , thought Haupt, alone in the dark, almost unbearably so. And yet, it is the only place I have. And I'm not even entirely sure I have it.
~ Brian Evenson
Ci ho pensato fin ora e questo «Ah,ah» è la conclusione. Perché? Perché una risata è la risposta più saggia e più naturale a tutto ciò che è strambo, e venga quel che vuole, ci resta sempre una consolazione: la consolazione infallibile che tutto è prestabilito.
~ Herman Melville
spectacle d'étrangers des plus bizarres et des plus
~ Herman Melville
The Odyssey puts us into a world that is a peculiar mixture of the strange and the familiar. The tension between strangeness and familiarity is in fact the poem's central subject.
~ Homer
the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Too weird to live, too rare to die.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
When things turn weird, the weird turn pro.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.
~ Jonathan Winters
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.
~ Peter Bichsel
Mlawhlaoblossblayowblagmilebbingoblaiblblafblablallblayarblablabnablahblallblah!' 'What?' 'Bla?' 'Bla?' 'Yarb?' 'Bah! You're stupid and useless and ugly!' 'Blabluablablablahllalalabala, too!' Iskaral Pust scowled at it. The bhokaral scowled back. 'Rat poison!' Pust hissed. And then smiled. The bhokaral offered him a dung sausage. And then smiled.
~ Steven Erikson
I have never seen anything like this," Bayard said. "It is…strange. I almost do not want this power-to make a man an animal.
~ Storm Constantine
There was something uncomfortably intimate in Hadith's manner, an intimacy I was unfamiliar with.
~ Storm Constantine
They were not quite like any humans I had met; perhaps touched with his difference, contaminated by the strangeness of his eternal solitude.
~ Storm Constantine
Lo que reside aquí me es ajeno Brotan lágrimas porque no lo merezco Y me siento afortunado.
~ Sue Hubbell
An alien had given her his phone number and asked her to wait. It was almost like dating again.
~ Nancy Kress
You're Regina Luporum," Ned, Master of London, had said. "Of course strange things are happening to you.
~ Carrie Vaughn
The three of them sat at the kitchen table, saying the same things over and over, so that by August the words began to rhyme with each other and sound strange.
~ Carson McCullers
The strangeness that made everything sparkle came from me. Worlds rose out of my bottomless perplexity
~ César Aira
and the rest is taxidery. --Morticia Addams ( The Addams Family
~ Charles Addams