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I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop. - Lynne Truss
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After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor. - Lynne Truss
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Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness. - Lynne Truss
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As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely day,' and so on. - Lynne Truss
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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. - Lynne Truss
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You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan. - Lynne Truss
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The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards. - Lynne Truss
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Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand? - Lynne Truss
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To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation. - Lynne Truss
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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
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One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character. - Lynne Truss
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What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go. - Lynne Truss
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I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising. - Lynne Truss
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Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus? - Lynne Truss
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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
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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
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