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- Nov 07, 2020
Strange Quotes
Some things stay strange no matter how you look at them.
One line reflects on how strange it is that audiences forget actors are simply performing roles that have nothing to do with who they really are, while another turns to astrophysics, calling the properties of pulsars and quasars a genuine scientific challenge. See Know quotes for related reflections.
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- Knows
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be frightened of the countryside after dark. Now I enjoy it. There is something wonderful about those strange country and wildlife noises.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my whole childhood trying to find places to be on my own. I used to sit on the water tank in the attic or in the dog's kennel. I was quite a strange child.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
All English people have a fascination with Jack the Ripper. I don't know why, because it's so dreadful, but such a strange, endearing part of our culture. Morbid fascination sums it up.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.
- Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was being hounded by a debt collector over a debt that she didn't owe, and she eventually just paid it because she wanted the calls to stop. I was very surprised. It sounded so strange. I started poking around on the Internet and found this was extremely common.
- Conviction
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- Nov 07, 2020
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020