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#short

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #short




I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal. ↗


— Paul Wellstone


#jewish #liberal #short

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme. ↗


— Irvine Welsh


#because #circumstance #extreme #frame #humanity

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring. ↗


— Mary Wesley


#become #boring #die #florida #go

One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since. ↗


— Cy Young


#called #ever #fellows #finally #me

Life is short, and it is here to be lived. ↗


— Kate Winslet


#life #life is short #lived #short

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story. ↗


— Tobias Wolff


#read #reader #really #short #short story

Time is long but life is short. ↗


— Stevie Wonder


#life is short #long #short #time

The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis. ↗


— Fareed Zakaria


#america #crisis #feeling #interested #long-term

It was 911 calling me. If you can believe it. Them calling me. ↗


— Robin Black


#gaining-ground #short-story #death

It could snow We don’t take care. The end of November came without coldness, with haunting and limp rains, pretty much leaves still laying anywhere on the sidewalks. It comes a morning with another grey, compact, closed, air changes its texture. Under the pharmacy green cross the thermometer sticks, in red, two degrees. The number, a bit blurred thins down in the space. We didn’t expect it, but it grows, far inside us, the little sentence. It comes to the lips like a forgotten song: “It could snow …” We should not dare to mention it in loud voice, it is still so much autumn, all could finish in a stupid freezing sudden shower, in a fog of boredom. But the idea of a possible snow came back, it’s what matters. No downhill in a sledge-trash-bag, no snowman, no children shouting,no pictures of landscape metamorphosis. Largely best then all that, because the essential snow is inside the unformulated. Before. Something we didn’t know we knew. Before snow, before love, the same lack, the same dimmed grey which days’ triteness creates pretending to suffocate. We shall cross somebody: - This time it’s almost winter! - Yes we start to be crestfallen! Workers hang pieces of tinsel. We didn’t say too much. Especially do not frighten away the slight shade of the idea. The red thermometer went down, one degree. It could snow. ↗


— Philippe Delerm


#change






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