Lynne Truss Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Lynne Truss

  Believe, Should Have, Track

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families.

  Lynne Truss

  Book, Errors, Hands

  Lynne Truss (2011). “Eats, Shoots and Leaves”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies.

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  Regret, Book, Dvds

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• After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

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  Jobs, Editing, Years

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• As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying hello, lovely day, and so on.

  Lynne Truss

  Lovely, Email, Saying Hello

  "The joy of text" by Will Self, Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop.

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  Hate, Eye, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.

  Lynne Truss

  Character, Judging, Details

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