Oddness Quotes
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“If you're trying to change someone you love, you don't love them. It's the oddnesses, the most unique imperfections that you'd miss the most. That's the stuff you can't replace. Everything else is easy to come by.”
― Write like no one is reading
― Write like no one is reading

“All winter long, I had glimpsed his deeply set habits, his regimented schedule. When I left, he would eat a dinner of leftovers, then continue to work until sleep. Everything revolved, to a fault, around work, around his next book project. If I had lived alone, I would have turned out the same way. It is the thing I have been most afraid of happening, my strictness toward myself calcifying into a lifestyle, my traits ingrown so deeply that my oddness surfaces, apparent to all.”
― Bliss Montage
― Bliss Montage

“As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don鈥檛 allow them to slot into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all.”
― The Saturday Night Ghost Club
― The Saturday Night Ghost Club

“The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Mother's delusions. Now, I don't know about the true things or the not-true things, because there seem to be so many of them, but I do know about Mother's delusions, and they're solid. They range from the conviction that the waffle iron, unless watched, is going to strangle the toaster, to the delusion that electricity pours out of an empty socket onto your head, and nothing is going to change any one of them.
The very nicest thing about being a writer is that you can afford to indulge yourself endlessly with oddness, and nobody can really do anything about it, as long as you keep writing and kind of using it up, as it were. I am, this morning, endeavoring to persuade you to join me in my deluded world; it is a happy, irrational, rich world, full of fairies and ghosts and free electricity and dragons, and a world beyond all others fun to walk around in. All you have to do---and watch this carefully please--is keep writing. As long as you write it away regularly, nothing can really hurt you.”
― Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
The very nicest thing about being a writer is that you can afford to indulge yourself endlessly with oddness, and nobody can really do anything about it, as long as you keep writing and kind of using it up, as it were. I am, this morning, endeavoring to persuade you to join me in my deluded world; it is a happy, irrational, rich world, full of fairies and ghosts and free electricity and dragons, and a world beyond all others fun to walk around in. All you have to do---and watch this carefully please--is keep writing. As long as you write it away regularly, nothing can really hurt you.”
― Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

“Kevin and Benji don鈥檛 think it odd, the way you don鈥檛 if something鈥檚 been going on your whole life.”
― Beartown
― Beartown

“Are you committed to having a really strange life?"
She laughed. "Probably. What do you mean?”
― The Portable Veblen
She laughed. "Probably. What do you mean?”
― The Portable Veblen

“He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose

“More and more, I have no idea what I think of anything. It鈥檚 as if the world were this very strange beast under a big tarp. Writing is a way of poking at the tarp. You can watch what the beast does during the poking and maybe surmise something about the sort of beast it is, but you also don鈥檛 want to be too confident in your theories. I really like the fact that, these days, I can鈥檛 say what writing is for, what it鈥檚 supposed to do, or how it鈥檚 supposed to affect us. I just like doing it.”
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“But she could feel that behind his words there was something nice and rather odd 鈥� kind people are often odd, she had explained to Saint-Denis, and she had
added, rather mysteriously: it can鈥檛 be otherwise.”
― The Roots of Heaven
added, rather mysteriously: it can鈥檛 be otherwise.”
― The Roots of Heaven
“Sometimes, small minds seem to take the day.
Election fraud. A migratory plague.
Less and less surprises us as odd.”
― Life on Mars: Poems
Election fraud. A migratory plague.
Less and less surprises us as odd.”
― Life on Mars: Poems
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