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“Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care, To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there, And the world's danger.”

Men World Children Littles Care Lying Saws Danger Lows Safety Stranger Stable Christmas Eve Oxen

Author:Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

“I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie and stranger things still that we spy only when we're not really paying attention to them, whispers and flickering shadows, here one moment, gone the instant we turn our heads for a closer look. But I couldn't always find them. And when I did, for a long time I thought they were only this excess of imagination that I carry around inside me, that somehow it was leaking out of me into the world.”

World Looks Long Stills Moments Eye Spirit Lying Turns Imagination Attention Gone Long Time Shadow Corners Stranger Pay Attention Instant Excess Twilight Spy

Author:Charles de Lint

“I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.”

Needs Lying Stranger Mask Lie To Me

Author:David Gemmell

“The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.”

Feels Long Stills I Can Enough Pain Lying Left Behinds Danger Promise Lifetime Stranger Far Away Left Behind

Author:Ben Harper

“We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.”

Thinking Lying Sound Stranger Deception Telephones Amazement

Book:Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism

Source: Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism

“"It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals," said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night, and to feel that I no more hold a place among the living than these dead do, and even to know that I lie buried somewhere else, as they lie buried here. Nothing uses me to it. A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel."”

Knows Men Feels Said Use Spirit Lying Night Mankind Stranger Mortals Sensations Buried Somewhere Else Spooky Using Me Windy

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.”

May Reason Reality Truth Running Lying Order Reading Ability Fiction Honesty Truth Is Anger Stranger Rational Thread Irrational Believable Stranger Than Fiction

Book:Clearing the ground

Source: Clearing the ground