"Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain depraved. They all write letters. It's their safe outlet, you see. They can be as interfering, as long-winded, as obscene, as pompous, as one-idea'd, as they like on paper, and no one can kick them for it. So they write. My God, how they write!"

-- Josephine Tey

#Writing Quotes #Odds Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee couldnâ€™t make up its mind which of my projects to recognize.”
“I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.”
“Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.”
“A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.”
“I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.”
“My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.”
“I'm like a Dilbert cartoon.”
“Too much of anything can make you sick, even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole”

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