"... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter."

-- Gertrude Stein

#Real Quotes #Different Quotes #Strange Quotes

“I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.”
“The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.”
“I'm not really fond of the trails left in the sky and a lot of chemicals that are being pumped through factories and even in the clothes we wear.”
“I have a lot of friends and family that have suffered because of the church's judgment; my best friend in the world is gay. I felt a lot of people around me drawing lines in the sand, and that year I decided: I don't want to draw lines and have to be on one side or the other, but if someone's going to push me to one or the other side of the line, I'm going to stand on the side of those being judged because that's where I feel Jesus meets people.”
“I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue as serious as climate change when one article is actually gibberish masked in pseudoscience and the other is well informed and accurate.”

Source : "Don't give climate change heretics an easy ride" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.
“The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century.”
“I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.”
“That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.”

Source : Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.16, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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