"We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced."

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Source : Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.438, Macmillan

Robert Charles Wilson

#Stranger Quotes #Born Quotes

“Come, evening, once again, season of peace; Return, sweet evening, and continue long! Methinks I see thee in the streaky west, With matron step, slow moving, while the night Treads on thy sweeping train; one hand employ'd In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day.”
“Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.”
“I just think Barack [Obama], he doesn't dig being asked at all. He's got a bit of an imperious nature about him. I guess nobody has told him that nobody reads newspapers anymore. That is a dying art form.”
“I'd much rather resign than be pushed.”
“I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nations faith in its elected leaders.”
“Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one who with but the slenderest resources to support his claim to a throne won for himself the greatest empire among the Hellenes (Greeks), while the growth of his position was not due so much to his prowess in arms as to his adroitness and cordiality in diplomacy.”

Source : "Histories" by Diodorus Siculus, 16.95.1-2,
“Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to find the course of human events to a final end. It is not reason that has promised to eliminate risk in human undertakings; it is the emotional needs of men.”
“If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.”

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