David Foster Wallace
Writer
"How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words."
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Odd
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C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect."
Dean Young
Poet
"A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd."
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"Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term."
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"My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions."
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"Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs."
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"I do not like odd things until I can understand them."
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"For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested."
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"One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot."
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"It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd."
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"it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else."
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"I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people."
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"Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you."
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"How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!"
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"Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is."
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"Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do as they ought."
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"I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind."
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"He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances."
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"At the end of any of my project I miss the material. I pick subjects I love and then get very engaged with them, so stopping that engagement often feels odd and arbitrary, but there's a moment when I don't want to change anything else and when the shape and length feels right. At that point, continuing would be destructive."
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"At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd"
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"It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . ."
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"Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them."
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"I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out."
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