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• I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.

  Lynne Truss

  People, Giving, Horror

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2010.

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• Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

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  Imagination, Together, Mystery

  "Character studies" by Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2007.

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• The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.

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  Drama, Ideas, People

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• Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus?

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  Mean, Choices, Brain

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• It should come as no surprise that writers take an interest in punctuation. I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, "I should have used fewer semicolons" - and although I have spent months fruitlessly trying to track down the chap responsible, I believe it none the less. If it turns out that no one actually did say this on their deathbed, I shall certainly save it up for my own.

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  Believe, Should Have, Track

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• I mean, full stops are quite important, aren't they? Yet by contrast to the versatile apostrophe, they are stolid little chaps, to say the least. In fact one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time; do it well; forget about it instantly), the apostrophe is the frantically multi-tasking female, dotting hither and yon, and succumbing to burn-out from all the thankless effort.

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  Jobs, Mean, Effort

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• I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

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  Dad, Eggs, People

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2010.

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• You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan.

  Lynne Truss

  Enemy, Piers, Want

  "Queen of pedants". Interview with John Mullan, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2003.

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• To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

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  Children, Book, People

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• When you by nature subscribe to the view that everyone except yourself is a berk or a wanker, it is hard to bond with anybody in any rational common cause.

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  Views, Causes, Common

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• My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.

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  Challenges, World, Sad Person

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• The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all in our virtual bubbles when we are out in public, whether we are texting, listening to iPods, reading or just staring dangerously at other people.

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  Reading, Intimate Conversation, Ipods

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• It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant scum. Now, understandably, it's nearly everybody.

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  Expression, Cia Agents, People

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• Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.

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  Gold, Levels, Sacred

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