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“Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.”

Writing Mind May Moving Pleasure Strange Paper Empty Crowds Fabulous Herds Of My Mind Corridors

Book:Personal Pleasures

Source: Personal Pleasures

“A very awkward situation occurs often in New York City when you are walking down a relatively empty sidewalk and there happens to be a person walking right next to you in the same direction as you at the exact same pace as you. I never know whether to pass or draft. It becomes sort of a strange competition.”

Knows Persons Happens Next Cities Situation New York Strange Walking Empty Competition New York City Pace Awkward Sidewalk Awkward Situations

Author:Aaron Karo

“The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this right now have some empties on a shelf in your room. Everyone knows how much college kids like to drink, do we really need to display it? It's a good thing, though, that this trend stops after college. Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had empty wine bottles up on their bedroom wall?”

“God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.”

Way Happens House Left Strange Empty Moved Disappear Phenomenon Host Guests Strange Phenomena

Author:Rajneesh

“There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It's off-putting but there's a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.”

People Wells Two Cities Morning Environment Streets Strange Comfort Empty Dancing Clubs Clock Theme Aesthetic Going Out Urban Desolate Empty Streets Urban Environment

Author:Moby

“My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.”

Writing Rich Strange Painting Wall Empty Opposites Juicy

Author:Tom Robbins

“Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.”

Ifs Earth Form Space Strange Waste Empty Mere Void

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.”

Feels Different Matter Night Black Strange Wall Horror Empty Mysterious Immense Brushes Dense Roaming Prowling

Book:The diary of a madman, and other tales of horror

Source: The diary of a madman, and other tales of horror

“Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter.”

Feels Next Love Is Clear Minutes Strange Cold Right Now Empty Winter Jungle Fever Feels Right One Minute

Book:Fallout

Source: Fallout

“There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and the streetlights are part of the spotlight apparatus on a bare stage set up for you to walk through. You get a feeling of being listened to, so you talk aloud, softly, to see how it sounds.”

Feelings Light Certain Sound Walks Focus Streets Stage Strange Walking Moon Unique Empty Casts Delight Spotlight Empty Streets

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness?”

People Want Giving Has Beens Sometimes Pain Suffering Strange Empty Stronger Credit Shoulders Emptiness Paradox Loved Ones

Book:A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series

Source: A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series

“And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely.”

Feels Sound Walks Steps Strange Lonely Empty Halls So Lonely

Book:Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition

“In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not.”

Ifs Knows Sleep Rooms Strange Empty Filled

Book:The Best of Faulkner

Source: The Best of Faulkner