#stranger

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. ↗

— Mark Twain

#fiction #make #sense #stranger #than

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. ↗

— Angela Carter

#ancient greeks #cinema #dark #dream #dreaming

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#different #feel #immensely #just #part

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#always #disguised #doubts #god #himself

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#bow #conscience #even #expected #expense

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

#human nature #love #love is #master #nature

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers. ↗

— Sanjay Dutt

#done #films #friends #i #rather

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#almost #certain #complete #details #directly

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. ↗

— Mark Twain

#make #sense #stranger #than #truth

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#among #his #honor #land #most