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• Sometimes I don’t want to stand around a room full of strangers, chitchatting about nothing, so I’ll come late to a party – and leave early. Though now that I’m saying this in a magazine, I’ll probably never be invited to another one.

  Cheryl Hines

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  There are no strangers, only friends you haven’t yet met.

  Dalai Lama

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  Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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• The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.

  Rebecca Solnit

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• More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.

  Rebecca Solnit

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• The actor’s role in the community is quite unlike anyone else’s. Businessmen, for example, don’t take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.

  Wallace Shawn

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• What a powerful thing to know: That one’s own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

  George Saunders

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• In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

  Jerry Saltz

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  It is funny the things that run through your mind when you’re sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.

  David Sedaris

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• Of all the wonders that I have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

  William Shakespeare

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• I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

  Ian McEwan

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• Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

  Bill Moyers

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• 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

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• A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol’ American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.

  Dan Stevens

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• At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

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• Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

  George Sand

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• For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.

  Georg Simmel

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• To see and be acquainted with strangers, in especial with men in honour and authority.

  Thomas Cavendish

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• 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.

  G. K. Chesterton

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• I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

  Sanjay Dutt

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