#stranger

But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#inner-voice #inner-voicery #invasion #life #lights

Strangers still leave me self-conscious. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#me #self-conscious #still #strangers

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that. ↗

— Will Oldham

#find #give #hear #i #interactions

Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#best #best-seller #even #had #i

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#comfortable #coming #feel #funny #funny thing

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#bizarre #completely #fictional #find #i

Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ↗

— George Sand

#familiarity #strangers

Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him. ↗

— Phaedrus

#fun #him #make #strangers

I’m older now than my dad was when he was my age. Wait, that’s not right. That’s not my dad at all, that’s just some stranger hanging around in my memory.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #correct #dad #family #father

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not. ↗

— Robert Henri

#strangers #art