{"quotes":[{"text":"I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.","author":"Lori R. Lopez","tags":["books","eccentric","humor","offbeat","quirky","rules","style","unconventional","unusual","writing"],"id":1007,"author_id":"Lori+R.+Lopez"},{"text":"My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.","author":"Lisa Kleypas","tags":["eccentric","eccentricity","family"],"id":15993,"author_id":"Lisa+Kleypas"},{"text":"Eccentric is a nice word to replace 'weird' and 'crazy', which you can use when you really like someone.","author":"Haidji","tags":["crazy","eccentric","haidji","harables","love","quotes"],"id":52557,"author_id":"Haidji"},{"text":"Stephen Tennant is the most sparkling talker who ever comes to my house, and perhaps the most amusing. He dances like the will-o'-the-wisp where other people stick in the mud. Though his really kindred spirits are the most exotic people he can find, he also greatly enjoys a talk with some extremely commonplace person, when he pretends that he thinks they mean something which they never thought of in their lives. He can be by turns poetic, malicious, and nonsensical. His talk is very pictorial and he handles words as if they were pait on a brush. When Stephen is alone with one friend he is often drawn to speak of very grave and profound subjects, and then he becomes unhappy, for he is never sure about what he loves and believes in, and would like to love and believe in so much.","author":"Edith Olivier","tags":["conversation","eccentric","exotic","stephen-tennant"],"id":70264,"author_id":"Edith+Olivier"},{"text":"Often, moreover, it is...That aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.","author":"Tom Robbins","tags":["disagreeable","eccentric","happiness","hard-times","inspirational","ridiculous"],"id":98826,"author_id":"Tom+Robbins"},{"text":"Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","bore","bored","boredom","boring","creative","creativity","different","eccentric","eccentricity","human","humans","innovation","innovative","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","life","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","unique","uniqueness","unusual","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":110389,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain.","author":"Ahmed Mostafa","tags":["acceptance-of-oneself","eccentric","evil","uniqueness","villain","villains-and-heroes","villainy","wannabes"],"id":114572,"author_id":"Ahmed+Mostafa"},{"text":"Normality is the new eccentric.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["average","boring","different","eccentric","fad","fashion","normal","original","paradox","plain","popular","standing-out"],"id":134040,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["be-careful","eccentric","friends"],"id":154239,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an obsessive, paranoid personality, with Asperger’s syndrome, a bad stutter, unstable moods, and episodes of psychotic mania and depression. But now he’s subject to Harvard’s speech codes that prohibit any “disrespect for the dignity of others”; any violations will get him in trouble with Harvard’s Inquisition (the ‘Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion’). Newton also wants to publish Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, to explain the laws of motion governing the universe. But his literary agent explains that he can’t get a decent book deal until Newton builds his ‘author platform’ to include at least 20k Twitter followers – without provoking any backlash for airing his eccentric views on ancient Greek alchemy, Biblical cryptography, fiat currency, Jewish mysticism, or how to predict the exact date of the Apocalypse.Newton wouldn’t last long as a ‘public intellectual’ in modern American culture. Sooner or later, he would say ‘offensive’ things that get reported to Harvard and that get picked up by mainstream media as moral-outrage clickbait. His eccentric, ornery awkwardness would lead to swift expulsion from academia, social media, and publishing. Result? On the upside, he’d drive some traffic through Huffpost, Buzzfeed, and Jezebel, and people would have a fresh controversy to virtue-signal about on Facebook. On the downside, we wouldn’t have Newton’s Laws of Motion.","author":"Geoffrey Miller","tags":["alchemy","asperger-s","asperger-s-syndrome","asperger-syndrome","awkwardness","backlash","clickbait","cryptography","depression","dignity","disrespect","diversity","eccentric","equity","expulsion","inclusion","inquisition","intellectual","isaac-newton","laws","literary-agent","mania","moods","mysticism","obsessive","offensive","outrage","paranoid","psychotic","publish","social-media","speech-codes","stutter","time-jump","time-travelling","twitter","universe","unstable","virtue-signal","virtue-signalling"],"id":179572,"author_id":"Geoffrey+Miller"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}