he was an oddity of some magnitude.

“what i really need is a dead man.”

— Chester Himes

“The french are a moral people--judged, that is, by american country club standards.”

— John Steinbeck

“don't ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.”

— B. Traven

“in the event that armed men of any sort enter the building, watch their feet closely.”

— Padgett Powell

“most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.”

— Jim Dodge

“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.”

— Donald Barthelme

“i wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.”

— B. Traven

“inside the coop where he'll stay until he's killed, the rooster sings anthems to liberty because he was given two roosts.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“When you make weirdness into a puzzle to be solved, you make LOST”

— Joseph Fink

“Oddity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. What one person rejects as lunacy, another reveres as truth.”

— Philip Gulley

“If [she] had come to prefer the company of odd ducks, it was possibly because they had no conception of oddity, or rather, they…

— Mary McCarthy

“we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.”

— Patricia Crone

“The enigma of stuttering is profound. For in a moment, you would sound very fluent, and at other times, you would struggle to utter…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Now I know, you can’t change what’s happened to you or hide it, or spin it, or get over it. All you can do…

— L.M. Browning

“Everything in nature is beautiful in its place there will be an odd when you change its place.”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih