#short

Life is too short for a long story. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#life is too short #long #long story #short #story

In short I will part with anything for you but you. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#i #part #short #will #you

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death. ↗

— Desmond Morris

#birth #death #life #like #short

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#book #deeply #insulting #ones #painful

I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years. ↗

— Max Muller

#brought #castle #children #each #gave

My life is short. I can't listen to banality. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#i #life #life is short #listen #my life

I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ↗

— Robert Frost

#had #i #lover #me #my own

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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