13 Quotes About Familiarity

Familiarity can be a great thing, but too much familiarity can also get in the way of developing close relationships. Try to make a conscious effort to get out of your comfort zone and make new friends. You never know when you’ll need a friend or a connection to be there for you. These quotes about creating a sense of familiarity will help you break down any barriers and forge lasting relationships.

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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. Don DeLillo
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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. Julian Barnes
The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of...
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The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear. Camilla Gibb
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The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet. Derek Thompson
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When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along. Jodi Picoult
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I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again, I would never accept the harsh judgments made against me by people whose only power to do so was that they had known me from the moment I was born. Jamaica Kincaid
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Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see. Scott Lynch
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Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made. John Godfrey Saxe
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What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder. Tierney Gearon
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Familiarity breeds contempt. Anonymous
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The living together for three long rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed. Arthur Helps