Robert Trivers famous quotes

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  • Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I. My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky.

  • I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

  • For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.

  • The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

  • Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.

  • Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

  • People who live in seven houses shouldn't throw stones

  • Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

  • The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

  • These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.