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I think about death sometimes. Analytically, of course.

~ Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss Death

To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as Thank God its Friday (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive its (no apostrophe) with the contractive it's (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian kill response in the average stickler.

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Lynne Truss Apostrophe Humor Punctuation Writing

Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.

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Lynne Truss Relationships Technology

...intelligence nowadays is all about application: it is the ability 'to take in a complex system and learn its rules on the fly'. For young people, this ability is second nature. Any fool knows that, if you need a new and unfamiliar VCR programmed in a hurry, you commandeer any small passing child to do it.

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Lynne Truss Intelligence Technology Youth

Everyday, you get home from the shops with a bag of cat food and bin-liners and realise that, yet again, you failed to have cosmetic surgery, book a cheap weekend in Paris, change your name to something more glamorous, buy the fifth series of The Sopranos, divorce your spouse, sell up and move to Devon, or adopt a child from Guatemala.

~ Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss Self Improvement

When you by nature subscribe to the view that everyone except yourself is a berk or a wanker, it is hard to bond with anybody in any rational common cause.

~ Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss Humorous

We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.

~ Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss Expression Language Punctuation Thinking

Jessie had never heard you could inherit madness. She thought madness was something that just happened to people in Shakespeare when the wind got up.

~ Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss Madness

No valentines from the cats again.

~ Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss Cats

We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.

~ Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss Books Journeys Reading Reading Books

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

~ Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss Care Now Texting

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.

~ Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss Texting Like Note

In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.

~ Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss Life World Moments

My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.

~ Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss Challenge I Am World

What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.

~ Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss People Place Always
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