{"author":"Lynne Truss","author_id":"Lynne+Truss","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.","author":"Lynne Truss","tags":["challenge","i am","world "],"id":5641,"author_id":"Lynne+Truss"},{"text":"Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.","author":"Lynne Truss","tags":["relationships","technology"],"id":9413,"author_id":"Lynne+Truss"},{"text":"We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.","author":"Lynne Truss","tags":["expression","language","punctuation","thinking"],"id":37994,"author_id":"Lynne+Truss"},{"text":"I think about death sometimes. Analytically, of course.","author":"Lynne Truss","tags":["death"],"id":77235,"author_id":"Lynne+Truss"},{"text":"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.","author":"Lynne Truss","tags":["care","now","texting "],"id":87392,"author_id":"Lynne+Truss"},{"text":"Jessie had never heard you could inherit madness. She thought madness was something that just happened to people in Shakespeare when the wind got up.","author":"Lynne Truss","tags":["madness"],"id":94546,"author_id":"Lynne+Truss"},{"text":"What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.","author":"Lynne Truss","tags":["people","place","always "],"id":140968,"author_id":"Lynne+Truss"},{"text":"...Intelligence nowadays is all about application: it is the ability 'to take in a complex system and learn its rules on the fly'. For young people, this ability is second nature. Any fool knows that, if you need a new and unfamiliar VCR programmed in a hurry, you commandeer any small passing child to do it.","author":"Lynne Truss","tags":["intelligence","technology","youth"],"id":151449,"author_id":"Lynne+Truss"},{"text":"When you by nature subscribe to the view that everyone except yourself is a berk or a wanker, it is hard to bond with anybody in any rational common cause.","author":"Lynne Truss","tags":["humorous"],"id":209212,"author_id":"Lynne+Truss"},{"text":"No valentines from the cats again.","author":"Lynne Truss","tags":["cats"],"id":217426,"author_id":"Lynne+Truss"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}