"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business"

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Source : Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1932-1946”

Gertrude Stein

#Important Quotes

“'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.”
“Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.”

Source : Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.589, Delacorte Press
“I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.”
“Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.”

Source : William G Tapply (2011). “The Elements of Mystery Fiction: Writing the Modern Whodunit”, p.31, Poisoned Pen Press Inc
“Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.”
“I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized and blond-haired and blue-eyed. I saw a little Nazi boy, pockets probably stuffed with scissors and retractable blades. My grandfather on my mother's side was rumored to be half Jewish, which practically makes me Jerry Seinfeld's brother, and thus wary of blond German boys with their hands out of sight.”
“If any player has a bad game its there in the back of your mind in the next game. Theres always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.”
“Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.”

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