"You can stroke people with words."

--

F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Flattery Quotes

“Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.”

Source : Kent Nerburn (2010). “Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life”, p.18, New World Library
“By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.”

Source : "The Elements of Typographic Style". Book by Robert Bringhurst, 1992.
“I think something that happens when you grow a bit older is you become slightly less overly emotional. Obviously when you're young or a more progressed teenager, you're overly emotional, so that side of me calmed down. I wanted to write more about stories, and other things that I'd observed and seen or done.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The King is dead, rock is done. You might be through, but I've just begun.”
“hope is like a piece of string when youâ€™re drowning; it just isnâ€™t enough to get you out by itself.”
“It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste or sober Girls or Women, but only branded Whores and infamous Adulteresses, did usually resort in ancient times.”
“But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.”
“First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.”

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