The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
In Mumbai, I feel like a stranger.
I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.
The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
