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“Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He also reminds me of James Purdy's notorious eccentricity. There's plenty of middlebrow stuff if you want it. Self-Murder isn't that.”

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Author:Kris Saknussemm

“Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans - though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground.”

People Knows May Self Today Left Black Water Memories Poor Cities Knowing Standing Flood Homeless New Orleans Overlooked Eccentricity Rooftops Self Knowing

Author:Richard Ford

“I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.”

Ifs Men Would Be Action Ready Normal Labor Technique Reputation Eccentricity Provocation Oddities

Book:Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men

Source: Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men

“The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.”

Thinking World Crazy Genius Great Things Small Things Eccentric Eccentricity

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.”

Thinking Want Children Desire Liberty Theory Ought Pure Elements Vote Live By Nuts Spinning Jam Eccentric Children Love Eccentricity Crank

Book:A Casual Commentary

Source: A Casual Commentary

“Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.”

Easy Genius Higher Flight Regions Toil Eccentricity

Book:The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens

Source: The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens

“The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.”

Next Doors Eccentric Eccentricity

Author:Julian Clary