For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them.
David SedarisTags: family food cheapness packrat strangeness
The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…
Jim MorrisonTags: evil sun indulgence strangeness wild-west
People are strange . . .
Jim MorrisonTags: drugs strangeness weirdness
It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.
Christopher FowlerTags: past rain ideas strangeness shadows city streets
You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.
Audrey NiffeneggerTags: strangeness odd-people
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.
Roman PayneTags: art madness literature weird artists strangeness bizarre awkwardness clumsiness roman-payne good-art
…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [...] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I’m outside or is it all America?
John UpdikeTags: inspirational america loneliness thought isolation strangeness outside rabbit angstrom updike
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: life truth reality fiction invention strangeness
A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign and irreducible to us, with what intensity nature or a landscape can negate us. At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise. The primitive hostility of the world rises up to face us across millenia.
Albert CamusTags: world strangeness absurdity hostility
Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.
Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange.
Some, downright weird.
But then again, you’d have to be.
To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in front of a computer screen staring at lines of information is pretty tedious. More like a computer programmer. And no matter how cool the Matrix made looking at code seem, computer programmers are even weirder than authors.
Tags: authors strangeness weirdness computer-science writing-process
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