#range

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ↗

— Mark Twain

#fiction #obliged #possibilities #stick #stranger

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty? ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#bounds #joy #oh #range #set

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck. ↗

— Thomas More

#bay #channel #danger #enter #great

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

#conditions #discover #egypt #evolution #heritage

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. ↗

— Lynn Barber

#biographies #human #human race #interviews #like

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#early #premature #range #safe #within

The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#hospitality #immense #iraqi #iraqi people #life

It was strange at times. We had to make out so much that we kind of got over it. It was really awkward. ↗

— Clea Duvall

#got #had #kind #make #much

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#bring #how #imagination #just #language

It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the old ways of being and behaving, so that you were gradually a stranger to the place you lived in. The woman priest with jogging clothes and a BlackBerry gave Mary a glimpse of what life must have been like for her mother as she grew older. ↗

— John Lanchester

#mother #old #stranger #age