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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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reality
life
truth
strangeness
invention
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.
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strangeness
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them.
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family
packrat
strangeness
food
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David Sedaris |
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...he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [...] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I'm outside or is it all America?
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loneliness
inspirational
angstrom
updike
rabbit
outside
strangeness
isolation
thought
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Updike John |
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"There was a pause, while I fought against this other, lesser kind of death that was creeping over me - this death called strangeness, this snapping of all the customary little threads of cause and effect that are our moorings at other times. Slowly they all drew back from me step by step, until I was left there alone, cut off. ("All At Once, No Alice")"
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strangeness
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Cornell Woolrich |
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[S]he might yet reveal depths of strangeness, if not of meaning.
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woman
strangeness
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E.M. Forster |
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There is funny ha-ha, and there is funny peculiar, and beneath a trapdoor in Kevin's mind is a place where the two blur together, the place of jokes, churning so furiously frequently, when it kicks up a line, he has no idea what it will turn out to be.
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jokes
peculiarity
strangeness
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Kevin Brockmeier |