Oddness Quotes

• My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

  Alan Alda

  Mother, Father, Trying

  Alan Alda (2009). “Never Have Your Dog Stuffed”, p.3, Random House

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• Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness as a shield.

  Sarra Manning

  Shields

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• The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.

  Christopher Fry

  Ambition, Animal, Frustration

  "Comedy". Vogue, January, 1951.

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• How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

  David Foster Wallace

  Understanding, Being Weird, Odd

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• The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

  Amy Lowell

  Myopic, Genius, World

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Guarantees, Texture, Odd

  Ford Madox Ford (2012). “Parade's End”, p.5, Vintage

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• She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her

  J. K. Rowling

  World, Might, Frightened

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• The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.

  Susan Sontag

  Feminist, Important, Lucky

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."

  Fleur Adcock

  Neurosis, Littles, Way

  Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Curiosity, World, Vibrancy

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• The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can. On those nights when you lie awake, either man or boy, wondering about yourself, peeling away one layer of oddness after another, you should remember and always be grateful that the woefully imperfect person that you are, with all your contradictions and unworthy desires, is not the best of you, any more than the wrapper is the best part of a Mr. Goodbar. -Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koonts pgs. 354-355 chapter 53

  Dean Koontz

  Lying, Grateful, Boys

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1422, Bantam

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• Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger.

  Ted Solotaroff

  Disappointment, Mean, Writing

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• The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit.

  Iamblichus

  Numbers, Perfection, Special

  "The Theology of Arithmetic". Translated by Robin Waterfield in "The Theology of Arithmetic: On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers", 1988.

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• What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years, not since high school. Once it was a shaming thing to say, and crushing to have it said about you, by a man. It implied oddness, deformity, sexual malfunction. I go to the living room doorway. “I’m not mad because I’m a woman,” I say. “I’m mad because you’re an asshole.

  Margaret Atwood

  Crush, School, Men

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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