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Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness as a shield. -- Sarra Manning
The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius. -- Amy Lowell
It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture. -- Ford Madox Ford
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that. -- Alan Alda
She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her -- J. K. Rowling
Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days." -- Fleur Adcock
The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit. -- Iamblichus
She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created. -- Christopher Fry

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