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Lynne Truss has 60 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.
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The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.
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Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
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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…
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The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day.
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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…
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As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that…
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Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.
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Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?
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After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.
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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…
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I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was…
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A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy…
— Herb Caen
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Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses.
— John Goddard
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...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends,…
— Walt Whitman
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Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.
— Richard Attenborough
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness…
— Ross Macdonald
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The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air.…
— Robert Montgomery
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Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of…
— Bill Bryson
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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that…
— Victor Hugo
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WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The…
— James Salter
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You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan.
— Lynne Truss
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When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad…
— Andy Andrews
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There's nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that…
— Noel Gallagher
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