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Eccentricity Quotes (page 2)

We really do see astigmatically, in fundamental sense: our space and time creations of our own psyche and when these momentarily falter - like acute disturbance of middle ear.Occasionally we list eccentrically, all sense of balance gone. Philip K. Dick
. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . . [p. 7] Shirley Hazzard
The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle, and without eccentricity. Michel de Montaigne
Jenny Holzer quote: "Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary."
Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary. Jenny Holzer
Lady Bracknell: “He was eccentric, I admit. But only in later years. And that was the result of the Indian climate, and marriage, and indigestion, and other things of that kind. Oscar Wilde
Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies - Scout Harper Lee
Years later when she was being eccentric, had shed her corset and let her arse spread unhindered by anything but her perpetual dressing gown. Peter Carey
voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of ma Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it [dignity]. It's never dignified, always brutal. What's dignified about dying? It's never dignified. And in obscurity? Offensive. Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. And it's fleeting and incredibly mercurial. And subjective. So fuck it. Dave Eggers
As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don’t act like Blofeld—monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent... Jon Ronson
In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life and vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all. Herbert Read
This last year she has been in danger of becoming an eccentric or else one of those persons who does not bother to put a saucer under her cup. Carol Shields
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Stories of magic alone can express my sense that life is not..."
Stories of magic alone can express my sense that life is not only a pleasure but a kind of eccentric privilege. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later [...]. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? Julian Barnes
Doug Coupland quote: "You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because..."
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog. Doug Coupland

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