15 quotes found
“The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.”
“When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by hea...”
“I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again, I would never accept the harsh judgments made against me by people whose only power to do so was...”
“When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate rea...”
“The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operati...”
“The line from psychologists is, if youve seen it before, it hasnt killed you yet.”
“Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.”
“Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.”
“What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.”
“Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.”
“Familiarity breeds contempt.”
“The living together for three long rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.”
“The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.”
