110 Quotes About Familiarity

Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home — and my sanity depends on it.

[If you] give into your [emotional] illusions, and you will find yourself lost in a maze with no exits, nor entrances, but winding paths that lead you in circles so many times that you grow familiar and comfortable with the very place you shouldn't be in.

Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.

One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about thin-lipped heroes flying over mysterious viny jungles toward untold wonders? That's what you wanted to write about, about what you didn't know. So. What mysterious time and place don't we know?"[Remember This: Write What You Don't Know (New York Times Book Review, December 31, 1989)]

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

Eleanor had known that for so long, she couldn’t even remember figuring it out.

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