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Familiar Quotes - Page 5

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.144

Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.

Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Lucky One”, p.70, Hachette UK

Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.

John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.9, Penguin

Everything I am familiar with is gone.

Marie Lu (2013). “The Legend Trilogy Collection”, p.231, Penguin

Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

Margaret Atwood (2014). “The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam”, p.742, Anchor

The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.

Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.248, Penguin

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.6, Wesleyan University Press

Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.

Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.196, Random House

Familiarity seems to breed contempt

Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.254, Ballantine Books

No season now for calm, familiar talk.

Homer (1791). “The Iliad: of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope. ...”, p.109

We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.

Henry James, William Veeder, Susan M. Griffin (1986). “The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction”, p.334, University of Chicago Press