"Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple."

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Source : Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.56, Hachette UK

Regina Brett

#Attitude Quotes #Purple Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even later when I grew up, I was constantly wearing dungarees, wearing guy shirts.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.
“Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.”
“The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.”
“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”

Source : Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1830). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse, Notes, and a Glossary by Tho. Tyrwhitt”, p.94
“Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.”
“I'm being a lot more consistent, trying to make every swing look the same. I'm doing what the situation calls for and trying not to do too much.”
“And why is it the best looking ones are always straight?”
“They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.”

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