#short

But that which is called a Flower by any other name would still be as trusting and they were not to change her. In fact, she grew only more Hothouse-gorgeous as the bitterness poured down and off and around her and flooded the town, fertilizing crops, drowning fields, providing new homes for water birds and their babies, and bringing people from villages all around to swim in their beautiful blue lakes and marvel in the wonders of a village no longer called Numbskull but instead 'Miroslava' which means 'peace and glory.' "Numbskull's Flower and the Well-Meaning Poets Society." First published in State of Imagination ↗

— Meg Sefton

#short-story #slipstream #young-adult-fiction #beauty

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign. ↗

— Theodore White

#anywhere #campaign #excitement #match #presidential

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#fleeting #history #moments #prevail #reason

But Bear said I shouldn’t talk to strangers because they would be scared of me. I always thought I was supposed to be afraid of them, but Bear said I would just end up talking them to death and that any nefarious purpose they might have had would become moot. When Bear McKenna accuses you of talking too much, you know you have a problem ↗

— T.J. Klune

#death

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive. ↗

— Philip Roth

#just #life #period #short #short period

I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other. ↗

— Tim Ryan

#america #because #bobby #campaign #care

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world. ↗

— George Saunders

#awake #aware #come #i #just

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#berserk #big #big head #came #child

I am all for the short and merry life. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

#i #i am #life #merry #short

My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving. ↗

— Ozzie Smith

#game #getting #good #just #matter