“Moving stranger,
Does it really matter,
As long as you're not afraid to feel?”
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
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“sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers”
Reply to a young actress who asserted that an older actor in a production showed too much affection for the leading man (c. 1910); as reported by Alan Dent in Mrs. Patrick Campbell, p. 78 (1961).
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"I don’t mind where people make love, so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."
"It doesn't make any difference what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."
"Does it really matter what these affectionate people do, so long as they don't do it on the street and frighten the horses?"
On the internet, a similar comment regarding politicians has been widely attributed to Victor Hugo, but without any definite sources. It appears to be a modern satirical invention, derived from Mrs. Campbell's statements.
Quoted in Michaud, Stephen; Aynesworth, Hugh (1999) The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy (Paperback; revised ed.). Irving, Texas: Authorlink Press. pg. 326
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The Globe and Mail interview (2017)
“Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.”
"Living Testament" speech http://video.cpt12.org/video/2364991008 at 11th Hour, Colorado Public Television (1994)
“When history moves — really moves — it does so in great convulsive jolts.”
Source: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 1, This Is What Democracy Looks Like, p. 13