"I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought."

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Gertrude Stein

#Writing Quotes #Stranger Quotes #Dear Quotes

“Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.”
“Styles become dated. Style doesn't.”
“The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.”
“Computers are good at swift, accurate computation and at storing great masses of information. The brain, on the other hand, is notas efficient a number cruncher and its memory is often highly fallible; a basic inexactness is built into its design. The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.”
“Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.”

Source : "What graduation speeches can teach you about life" by Natasha Lunn, www.redonline.co.uk. April 15, 2015.
“Creativity is achieved in the doing, it's not achieved in the thinking.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.”
“Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My duchess.”

Source : Elizabeth Hoyt (2013). “Duke of Midnight: Number 6 in series”, p.205, Hachette UK

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