"Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for."

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Source : "The joy of text" by Will Self, Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

Lynne Truss

#Communication Quotes #Mean Quotes #Texting Quotes

“People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.”
“I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example.”
“The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it to mean? Writers can edit sentences that may be well-crafted but that don't express an intended thought. But in photography, there are no revisions: A photograph is in or it's out, and the photographer must live with the consequences of his or her choices.”
“Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.”

Source : Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…”, p.3130, e-artnow
“My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.”
“A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.”
“I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it would resemble a scrap of lace. I am a lover of history . . . [but] history has one flaw. It is a subjective art, no less so than poetry or music. . . . The historian writes a truth. The memoirist writes a truth. The novelist writes a truth. And so on. My mother, we both know, wrote a truth in The 19th Wifeâ€“ a truth that corresponded to her memory and desires. It is not the truth, certainly not. But a truth, yes . . . Her book is a fact. It remains so, even if it is snowflaked with holes.”
“Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.”

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