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oddity

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The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.

That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Love - thou art Veiled - A few - behold thee - Smile - and alter - and prattle - and die - Bliss - were an Oddity - without thee - Nicknamed by God - Eternity. Emily Dickinson

For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity. Lynn Shelton

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. Marilyn Hacker

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity. Roy Lichtenstein

I think my parents were bewildered by my oddity. Antonella Gambotto-Burke

I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd. Martha Plimpton

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