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When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that y...

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Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.

The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore ...

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Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at,...

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One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is ...

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One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is ...

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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.

Evil is unspectacular and always human,And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately...

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We believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity. We are loo...

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The living together for three long rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all ...

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I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability...

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When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For...

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What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that ...

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All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again,...

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People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without qu...

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