A Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian - Writer
Born: September 15, 1977

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

Bill Moyers

Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

James Clavell

The Internet is full of strangers, generous strangers who want to help you for no reason at all. Strangers post poetry and discographies and advice and essays and photos and art and diatribes. None of them are known to you, in the old-fashioned sense. But they give the Internet its life and meaning.

Caterina Fake

The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

Daniel Berrigan

As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.

Judy Biggert

We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

Thomas Harris

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it's essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you're going to be an actor.

Matthew McConaughey

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

Matthew Pearl

surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain

Kami Garcia

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

Jane Austen

Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

Gertrude Stein

I really love weddings. You are surrounded by people who are strangers and then after you say 'I do' those strangers become family.

Rick Famuyiwa

We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.

Mary Heaton Vorse

Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

Paul Bloom

I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening.

Russell Brand

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