110 Quotes About Familiarity

As I contemplated the alternatives, I thought the choice should have been easier. I was discontented with my current situation, but people embrace the familiar, and much of what was familiar was also dear to me.

Generally, people like people who are like themselves.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.

You have to practice being single but in a relationship. This is not a contradiction, it’s the art of sensual living.

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 reality. This is just what I see and hear.

I wonder how often it’s less about getting out of where we’re at, and more about giving ourselves the illusion that we’re trying to get out of where we’re at. And in the scandalous action of trading the fear of what ‘could be’ for the pain of ‘what is,’ we have traded away the whole of our lives.

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 operating novelist to dispel the blur.

Some people do not mind losing the person or thing that some people would kill to have.