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“It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living in a land of little water because life is drawn together. And I believe in the gathering of bones as a testament to spirits that have moved on. If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self.”

Source: Red: passion and patience in the desert

“It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.”

Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion

“We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.”

Feelings Hands Turns Social Strange Members Connections Witness Endeavor Contracts Erotic Calculating Social Contract Inversions

Book:Love and Friendship

Source: Love and Friendship

“It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from what drives evolution to strange insights and mystical experiences through the ages. The machine was built as an attempt to investigate and amplify them.”

Thinking Kind Age Turns Universe Levels Information Strange Evolution Built Machines Accounts Insight All Kinds Quantum Mystical Leaks Amplify Mystical Experiences

Book:Paths to Otherwhere

Source: Paths to Otherwhere

“My husband and I speak an ancient language called grammatical English, and the kids speak a strange dialect which is difficult to decode because it is based on only four phrases: 'Huh,' 'I dunno,' 'It's not my turn,' and 'I do everything around here!”

Children Kids Turns Speak Language Difficult Four Strange Husband Ancient Phrases My Husband Dialect

Book:Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)

Source: Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)

“When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.”

Feels Happens Pain Suffering Turns Accepting Struggle Strange Willing Experience Things Happen Strange Things

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.”

Poetry Turns Views Strange Labor Tricks Endless Phrases Sonnet Antiques Nothing New Bonnets Elegy Odes Uncouth Disarray

Book:The Poetical Works of Doctors Smollett, Johnson, and Goldsmith

Source: The Poetical Works of Doctors Smollett, Johnson, and Goldsmith

“My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.”

Ifs Would Be Beautiful Film Moving Turns Sound Strange Painting Wind Unique Mouths Mood Layers Portraits Captured Mona Lisa Celluloid

Author:David Lynch

“I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder.”

Mind Light Truth Turns Wonder Strange Borders Wrong Turn

Author:Denise Levertov