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«All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.»
Author: Derek Jarman
(Artist, Author, Film Director)
| Keywords:
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«One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
| Keywords:
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«Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.»
«Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
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Friendship
| Keywords:
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«You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| Keywords:
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«I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.»
«This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
multitudes, oddest, perished, perishing
«The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright - And this was very odd, because it was The middle of the night»
«In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
argument, considered, number, odd, odder, oddest, Odd and, odd number, roulette, roulette wheel, wheel, wheeled
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