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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 24 quotes by Lynne Truss Lynne Truss Born (1955-05-31) 31 May 1955 (age 59) Kingston upon Thames, England Occupation Writer Nationality English Website www.lynnetruss.com Lynne Truss (born 31 May 1955 ) is an English writer, journalist and professional pedant best known for her popular book Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. In August 2014, Truss was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian... Read full biography of Lynne Truss → 1 2 Ctrl → 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 to... → 0 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. 0 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. 0 Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but... → 0 My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am. 0 What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go. 0 What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again. 0 Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand? 0 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. 0 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 who have subsequently... → 0 You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan. 0 After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor. 0 As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely day,' and... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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