Wordgrove Post & Review ~ 01/03/23

01/03/2023 by Dan Jack/BarTalk

THIS EDITION: strange :: stranger

Quoted In The Grove:
We’re all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we’re seldom formally introduced.
~Robert Charles Wilson

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.
~Laozi

EndQuote:
Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.
~Sophocles

Next Exercise Prompt: secret

Recounting the strange is like telling one’s dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one’s entire day.
~Neil Gaiman

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
~Black Elk

I turned off my tape-recorder and just sat looking at him for a moment, this strange time-traveller from the year 1890 or so, who remembered when there were no cars, no electric lights, no airplanes, no state of Arizona.
~Stephen King

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
~Arthur Conan Doyle

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world ‒ mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
~R D Laing

A lot of times, people really don’t know what it is they want. They might think they want a new house, new car, but what they actually want is just different.
~David E Kelley

All things must change to something new, to something strange.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
~Erich Fromm

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
~Thomas Wolfe

Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all
~Vera Nazarian

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
~Victor Hugo

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
~Germaine Greer

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.
~Liv Tyler

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
~Harriet Tubman

I haven’t lost faith in human nature and I haven’t decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
~Armistead Maupin

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Posted From The Grove

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.
~James McGreevey

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
~Frank Moore Colby

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
~Michel de Montaigne

Advice is like a stranger ‒ if welcome, he stays the night; if not welcome, he returns home that day.
~African Proverb

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
~Thomas Mann

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It’s very strange, when you give a story and it doesn’t come out the right way.
~Joe Arpaio

Politics makes strange bedfellows.
~Charles Dudley Warner

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
~H G Wells

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? …Freedom is good, but it is not easy.
~Katarina Witt (formerly East Germany)

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
~Francis Bacon

What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
~W E B Du Bois

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
~Noel Coward

What strange infatuation rules mankind!
~T Chatterton

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
~Ernie Pyle

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.
~Francis Bacon

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
~Lewis Thomas

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, ‘Oh, our attitude has changed. We don’t dislike these people any more.’ But by the strangest coincidence, they haven’t taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.
~Christopher Isherwood

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Let’s drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let’s drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
~Noel Coward

For, on this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
~Adlai E Stevenson

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Don’t borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.
~Lord Burleigh

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
~Ayrton Senna

It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
~John Steinbeck

But I’m acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today’s world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.
~Armistead Maupin

One of the challenges in networking … thinks it’s making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it’s the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you’re dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.
~Reid Hoffman

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
~Alice Hamilton

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I’ve done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
~George Saunders

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
~Barbara Bush

~Jordan Clark: f*ckai (famous) (4:55) parody as horror as prophesy, animated

~Duncan Wolfe: Obscura (1 minute: 35 seconds of strange)

~Future Power Station: Strange Feeling (0:24) 24 seconds of programmable, improbable dance moves, goofy

~Brijkishore Pandey: Strange (1:34) video tabloid, today’s dose of strange

~Vallee Duhamel: Strangers (3:15) colors? dance? size? song? all here

~strange.rs: Strangers 2015 (8:24) eight & a half minutes of scrolling images to pedigreed music

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
~Stendhal

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.
~William Allen White

I have a strange relationship with time. I’m not aware of it passing.
~Daniel Day-Lewis

You don’t have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
~Annie Leibovitz

Everybody is just a stranger, but that’s the danger in going my own way.
~John Mayer

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.
~Robert Brault

He read his mind. He’s a strange sort of man, isn’t he? It’s not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
~Omar Sharif

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It is strange and wonderful what changes may be wrought by a few fleeting months, on the human frame, and the human heart.
~Elizabeth J Eames

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr

Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change
To something new, to something strange;
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
~Mark Twain

It’s amazing how easy the truth is to accept… No matter how strange.
~KC Randall

Fate is not quite as strange as it appears!
~John McLeod

§ VIDEO:

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.
~Tippi Hedren

Making movies is not rocket science. It’s about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That’s a challenge. When it works, it’s fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn’t work, it’s almost just as fascinating.
~Julia Roberts

One of the beauties of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.
~Stellan Skarsgard

Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We’re all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all… . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.
~Lizzy Caplan

There’s a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything’s against you; there’s no time, and even less money – you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it’s thrilling.
~Eric Stoltz

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, ‘The Clock’ is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself – something almost inhuman.
~Jerry Saltz

You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated – I mean that I was just vilified for – are now looked at as classics.
~John Milius

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There are few who have not suffered attacks of wanderlust… that strange seasonal restlessness… the itching foot, as it is called out West.
~Mark Daniels

Out ere somewhere we’ll ride the range
a-looking for the new and strange;
My feet are tired and need a change.
~Henry Herbert Knibbs

Between 1830 and 1886 there lived in New England one of the strangest and most baffling women that ever wandered out of fairyland. Her name was Emily Dickinson… Her poetry has a touch of lightness, and yet at times she drops a plummet into the depths of these strange souls of ours
~Rev Charles E Diehl

I do not care for the body, I love the timid soul, the blushing, shrinking soul; it hides, for it is afraid, and the bold, intrusive body… I think we grow still smaller — this tiny, insect life the portal to another; it seems strange — strange indeed.
~Emily Dickinson (Letter to Abiah Root)

~Erik Lehmann: Strangers (19:24) well acted, difficult viewing

~varina: Strangers (2:04) suffering for art’s sake? a dancer’s answer

~Omeleto: Gustav (11:43) the invasive potentials of music

~Omeleto: Noise (10:34) even silence has a noise, call it fate

~Omeleto/Sundance: Garfield (12:39) disgustingly wholesome and reaffirming

Young actors often don’t think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
~Natalie Portman

She was scrumptious bare. She did right to share
~author unknown

I’m so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me – and sometimes for a lot of money too.
~Liam Neeson

I never wanted to become an actress because I’d read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.
~Julie Walters

I’m hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career – they are so fun and witty.
~Louise Jameson

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Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.
~Ursula K Le Guin

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.
~David Bowie

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
~George Eliot

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.
~King Hussein I

And how we loved this strange, mad city of ours, which we knew in our hearts was, to the clear eye of reason and the pure, sane vision of poetry, a bedlam of magical impertinence, a blind byway of monstrous wretchedness. And yet the blacker it seemed to the lamp of the spirit, the more we loved it with the troubled eye of flesh.
~Christopher Morley

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways,
And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low,
I’m at home and at ease on a track that I know not,
And restless and lost on a road that I know.
~Henry Lawson

It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
~Veronica Roth

§ MUSIC:
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
~Kenneth Clark

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
~Henry Rollins

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
~Charley Pride

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.
~Corey Hart

It’s a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.
~Cyndi Lauper

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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
~John Berger

Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
~Jack Antonoff

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
~Marshall McLuhan

I am the canvas whereon may be painted
Shapes of strange beauty, — conceptions sublime, —
She a rare picture, — pure, beautiful, sainted,
Sketched by the Master, to live for all time.
~Florence Percy

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move.
~William Faulkner

A strange thing is memory… Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
~Grandma Moses

purple does something strange to me…
~Charles Bukowski

~Mickey & Sylvia: LOVE IS STRANGE

Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton (3:26) deplorable quality video, but fun to watch… and they sing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kIc7ARl4HE

~Ewan McGregor, LipstickOY (3:19) lip-syncing dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5p9fpGxv48

~Ythera Cowgirl and Steve Rodgers, John Klugh (3:20) rhythm never varies, sweetly different
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY887ucLt9U

~Seayou Records: Black Palms Orchestra (3:10) time warp overlay, bitter sweet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH0GUJsSNHs

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~Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart: Love Is a Stranger (3:50) …and obsession

~Warhaus: Love’s A Stranger (3:30) flavor: European love with angst

~Jim Morrison: The Dead South • People Are Strange (3:13) musicians/video worthy of the song

~Saad Moosajee: Woodkid – Reactor (4:25) stumbled-on strangeness

~ana cz: Strange Angel (1:01) pretty much defies description

~Rok Predin: Strange Fish (2:09) picasso-like message cartoon

~Curtis & Kar Productions: Strange Fruit (2:31) classic song reworked to advantage

~Grey Beatty: Strange Magic (3:59) clip from the animated movie

~The Culture Crush: Strange (3:47) garage band look, but they’re good

~Ivana Bobic: Sigrid • Strangers (3:54) love begins as a stranger

~Cole Mitchek: Strangers (3:38) slice of life clips in old Paris to a gentling song

~Energy TV: LP • Strange (3:55) one thing unites all without exception

~Celeste: Strange (3:30) love, the subject again, because people change

Down the years that followed, though I trod strange paths unheeding,
Though I chased the jack-o’-lanthorns of so many maddened years,
Though I never looked behind me where the home-lights were receding,
Though I never looked enough ahead to see the Inn of Fears;
Still I knew your heart was near me…
~Reginald Wright Kauffman

How strange that the moon shines in glory
And the stars are wondrously bright,
When the one whom I thought had loved me
Has failed me, and now all is night!
~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
~Erich Maria Remarque

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render each other mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.
~Sonya Hartnett

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you’ve made a whole new load of friends and she’s made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you’re kind of strangers.
~Michael Caine

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles – you’re lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you’re brother and sister. That’s what intimacy is, if you’re with your soulmate.
~Cate Blanchett

Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
~Alan King

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.
~Groucho Marx

Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
~Zac Efron

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It’s just that constant strangeness. I think it’s a very real thing.
~Jason Schwartzman

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
~Samuel Pepys

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
~Marguerite Young

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Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.
~Mitch Albom

Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.
~Suzy Kassem

As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.
~Judy Biggert

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.
~James Merrill

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Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
~Emil Ludwig

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
~Gilbert Parker

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
~Rod McKuen

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
~Maya Angelou

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
~Shirley MacLaine

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.
~Patti LuPone

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there’s nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
~Ani DiFranco

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.
~Douglas William Jerrold

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
~Melody Beattie

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It is strange but statistics prove it to be true that the WICKED actually work harder to go to hell than the RIGHTEOUS do to get to heaven.
~Josh Billings

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
~David Wood

Never floss with a stranger.
~Joan Rivers

It’s all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he’s perfect.
~Mae West

It’s funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.
~Eric San

Though he has charmed a world with fire and soul,
His lowly grave is never visited.
Sad? Strange? Well, not so very, on the whole—
You see, this charming man is not yet dead.
~Alice Wellington Rollins

We have a strange and wonderful relationship – he’s strange and I’m wonderful.
~Mike Ditka

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
~Bern Williams

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Of heavenly lineage, she [E Dickinson] was lightning and fragrance, all mixed up with a smile. Half-elf, half-angel, yet in all ways a woman, she loved solitude, but she was no morbid recluse… She was fascinating, shy as a wild bird, aloof but never alone. She was happy, but she was never able to disengage herself from that eternal pre-occupation with death, as she called it. Not that she feared death, but only wondered at it, and at the overtakelessness of those who had accomplished it.
~Rev Charles E Diehl

You toss in your bed, thinking over and over of that strange thing — Death: — and that perhaps it may overtake you… and you sob out those prayers (you scarce know why) which ask God to keep life in you.
~Donald Grant Mitchell

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
~George MacDonald

Well: Death is a huge omnivorous Toad
Grim squatting on a twilight road.
He catcheth all that Circumstance
Hath tossed to him…
Who fears the hungry Toad? Not I!
He but unfetters me to fly…
~Sidney Lanier

It is very strange that the years teach us patience ‒ that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
~Elizabeth Taylor

After a man’s long work is over and the sound of his voice is still, those in whose regard he has held a high place find his image strangely simplified and summarized. The hand of death, in passing over it, has smoothed the folds.
~Henry James,

And so, I confess, it was a surprise to discover that I was dead and yet not dead… There had been a blinding concussion, a moment of darkness, a sensation of falling — falling — into a deep abyss… I felt strangely free from physical discomfort…. here I was, in a state of being that the world calls death…
~Willard E Hawkins

People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.
~Jim Morrison

Life is a warfare and a stranger’s sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
~Marcus Aurelius

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John’s death.
~Paul McCartney

I couldn’t have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother’s death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.
~Mary Schmich

As life runs on, the road grows strange
with faces new – and near the end.
The milestones into headstones change,
Neath every one a friend.
~James Russell Lowell

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

Strange – is it not? That of the myriads who
Before us passed the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the road
Which to discover we must travel too.
~Horace

No Work so great,
but what admits decay,
No Act so glorious,
but must fade away…
Old things must yield to New,
Common to Strange,
Perpetual Motion,
brings perpetual Change.
~James Miller

All say, How hard it is that we have to die — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
~Mark Twain

Black Butte

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
~Muhammad Yunus

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.
~Bonnie Langford

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
~Karel Capek

I’ve dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actually do, but these things have become part of my process. I think the things I do for my appearance help make me look better. I even colour my hair because I like how it makes me look.
~Ryan Seacrest

Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you’ve had Botox. I can tell you’ve had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one’s saying anything. We’re just accepting the fact that they’re strange-looking.
~Guy Pearce

Why should you think that beauty is a stone on the beach, for any passerby to pick up? Beauty is something wonderful and strange, that the artist creates in torment, out of chaos.
~William Somerset Maugham

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.
~Clive Bell

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.
~Jock Sturges

The Beautiful is always strange.
~Charles Baudelaire

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
~Walter Hagen

We also maintain – again with perfect truth – that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
~Richard Le Gallienne

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
~Leo Tolstoy

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The strangest part about being famous is you don’t get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.
~Kristen Stewart

The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It’s strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.
~Sienna Miller

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
~Fiona Apple

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn’t speak the language or know what the food was like.
~Molly Sims

I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.
~Kathleen Turner

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, ‘I don’t understand why this is happening to me.’ There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.
~Chad Kroeger

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.
~Rob Zombie

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.
~Carnie Wilson

Hollywood is a strange, strange thing. I feel like I’ve been invited to a very exclusive ball and I’m just trying to make nice with everybody and hope that if they kick me out they’ll at least give me a ride home.
~Darren Criss

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@Writers Platform

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.
~Walt Whitman

It’s a poet’s lot not to feel as others do, and to feel what they do, in all its strangeness, more deeply.
~Barbara VanDenburgh

Tis strange,-but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction:
if it could be told,
~George Gordon Byron

It’s very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
~Daniel Keys Moran

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
~Mark Twain

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate
myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
~Isaac Rosenberg

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
~Haruki Murakami

In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.
~Joanna Newsom

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
~Dennis Potter

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

From such records on the living pages of unconscious leafy organisms, I find myself unavoidably led a step higher, to gaze at that strangest of all papers… the bodies of living men! …We are living writing-paper.
~George Wilson

Guest Quote:
Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
~Dick Francis

Dirty-looking rascals, but I suppose every one has some little immortal spark concealed about him. You would not think it, to look at them. There is no a priori probability about it. A strange enigma is man!
~Arthur Conan Doyle

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
~Hu Shih

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
~Johan Huizinga

Among the strange things of this world, nothing seems more strange than that men pursuing happiness should knowingly quit the right and take a wrong road, and frequently do what their judgments neither approve nor prefer.
~John Jay

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
~Timothy Radcliffe

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
~Tom T Hall

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
~Oscar Wilde

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
~Andreas Capellanus

Basic to man’s existence is a sense of indebtedness… to society… to God. What is emerging in our age is a strange inversion. Modern man believes that the world is indebted to him… His standard and preoccupation: What will I get out of life? Suppressed is the question: What will life, what will society get out of me?
~Abraham J Heschel

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
~William Cowper

That’s a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.
~Peter Singer

I’ve been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
~Tarsem Singh

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

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.
~Georg Solti

Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.
~Flann O’Brien

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If the experience of science teaches anything, it’s that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
~John Polkinghorne

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done ‒ then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
~Frances Hodgson Burnett

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.
~Lewis Thomas

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
~Werner Heisenberg

Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn’t that after all the definition of marriage?
~Howard Stringer

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
~Plato

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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
~Khalil Gibran

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
~Stephen Vizinczey

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.
~Madeleine Albright

All things are strange which are worth knowing.
~Catherynne M Valente

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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
~Emily Dickinson

What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you’ve never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.
~John L’Heureux

Life is stranger than biology textbooks.
~David Rains Wallace

§The Exercise:

parsing green

strange, the color green
the hue of growing things
the landscape between
virgin and forest
the state of innocence
before teaching
designated for envy
the country between
sad and cowardly
sky and glowingly

question #3

when did strange become:
the default expectation of strangers
the reason for discovery, a prejorative
the answer to mystery and enigma
the scent of adventure on the wind
the answers waiting at death?
class is in session

epoch o’ lips

migrants who stayed
same who say
they must away
who try today

strange times
changing climes
cringey slime
and lies online

mortal sins
fatal days
disposal bins
dead-end ways

some die young
the question why
the swan their song
tho teachers try

teachers preach
preachers teach
forthright speech
out of reach

5s ‘n 7s

bold crusaders prone to stray
pulpit preachers pray and prey
youth disobeys wants its day
wants it now, late date to pay
strange arrangement legend’s way
schooled in error, wisdom may
stand account come judgement day

ballyhooed friction
stranger than fiction
factions as fractions
free will transaction
mercy in action
no better traction
blending attractions

transition, the short days’ end
the colors before darkness
pinpoint stellar brilliance
suggesting intelligence
strange secret, circumspect stars

sketch reality
call it history
online mysteries
silhouettes of strange
scheduled apathies
branching miseries
tuned out for a change

circumstances rule
facts on the ground make rulers
strangely pliable

The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
~Rebecca West

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
~Lord Byron

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
~C S Lewis

Old age makes you a stranger in your own country.
~Ken Alstad

If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day.
~John Archibald Wheeler

Aren’t most wonderful things a little bit strange?
~Katie Henry

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
~Blaise Pascal

Times will be strange, take courage. Make the decisions available to you, navigate the rest.
~author unknown

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
~Georg Simmel

Good things happen when you meet strangers.
~Yo-Yo Ma

Editor’s note: It has been brought to this editor’s attention that the previous spelling for ‘βʊ₤Ḹ Ֆ♯ῗ╦’, is more properly pronounced, ‘Ꞛʊ₤Ḹ Ֆ♯¡╦’.

Such is not the case. In order to squelch theological debate and rancor, both are correct depending on dialect.

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The Olio
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