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Quite Quotes by Lynne Truss
- 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…
- 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.
- All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general…
- 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,…
- ...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone…
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- I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit… — David Attenborough
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- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden