Famous quotes containing the word short:
“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (16941778)
“I think taste is a social concept and not an artistic one. Im willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody elses living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into anothers brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
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