"It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam."
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"It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed."
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"Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed."
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"Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger."
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"Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human."
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"Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself."
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"It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger."
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"You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend."
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"It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger."
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"Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers."
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"Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage."
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"It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life."
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"When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since."
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"We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other."
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"we walk the plank with strangers."
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"You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople."
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"I feel really comfortable when the camera is rolling. I feel less comfortable in the moments before and after, like, "Okay, where do I sit now?" I find the social aspect of being on a project ... it's just a lot. There are so many new people, and it's a lot of introducing the most charming, most engaging, funniest version of yourself to, essentially, a bunch of strangers you already know too many details about."
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"Wary, as if surrounded by strangers."
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"I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921"
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"I'm a stranger," pointed out Bod. "You're not," she said, definitely. "You're a little boy." And then she said, "And you're my friend. So you can't be a stranger."
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