Lynne Truss Quotes

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• Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.
• The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.
• Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
• 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…
• The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day.
• 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…
• As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible…
• Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.
• Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?
• After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.
• 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…
• I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.
• 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.
• 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…
• My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.
• Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.
• One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face…
• 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.
• What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.
• What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

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