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“People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.”

People Ifs Feelings Grief Setting Familiar Block Settings Posts Shock Again And Again Frontiers Grim

Author:C. S. Lewis

“London is like a dream come true. As I ramble through it I am haunted by the curious feeling of something half-forgotten, but still dimly remembered, like a reminiscence of some previous state of existence. It is at once familiar and strange.”

Stills States Feelings Dream Existence Half Strange Forgotten London Familiar Curious Remembered Dreams Come True

Book:Preaching in London: A Diary of Anglo-American Friendship

Source: Preaching in London: A Diary of Anglo-American Friendship

“Learning something new means you have to abandon, for a little while at least, the familiar and comforting. I happen to like this feeling. I remind myself that tomorrow, I will be someone who didn't exist yesterday.”

Mean Littles Feelings Happens Progress Tomorrow Yesterday Familiar Abandon Something New Comforting Learning Something New

Author:Nick Stone

“A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.”

Ideas Use Feelings Artist Simple Levels Direct Function Simplicity Familiar Containers Snowball

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“In dreams you can have the feeling that you've had this dream before, that you have this dream over and over again, and you know that it's really nothing that simple. You know that there's a whole underground system that you call 'dreams,' having nothing better to call them, and that this system is not like roads or tunnels but more like a live body network, all coiling and stretching, unpredictable but finally familiar - where you are now, where you've always been.”

Knows Whole Feelings Dream Body Simple Familiar Where You Are Unpredictable Tunnels Stretching

Book:Friend of my youth: stories

Source: Friend of my youth: stories

“In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works. It exploits familiar images, be they puppies or babies - or, as in the case of this movie, the twin towers - and tries to make us feel good, even virtuous, simply about feeling. And, yes, you may cry, but when tears are milked as they are here, the truer response should be rage.”