"Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't."
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"If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?"
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"But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself"
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"We had Jesse Ventura in Minnesota win the governorship, nobody thought he was going to win. I'm telling you, stranger things have happened."
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"The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers."
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"Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers."
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"My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers."
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"Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger."
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"She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait."
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"A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province."
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"Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!""
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"Truth is stranger than fishin."
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"A dog is a bond between strangers."
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"My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other."
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"As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends."
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"To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers."
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"The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence."
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"What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman."
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