Famous quotes containing the word short:
“We had the fairest view of Ktaadn.... The summit ... had a singularly flat, table-land appearance, like a short highway, where a demigod might be let down to take a turn or two in an afternoon, to settle his dinner.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest.... It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.”
—Raymond Chandler (18881959)
“A short life and a merry one, my buck!
We used to say wed hate to live dead-old,
Yet now . . . Id willingly be puffy, bald,
And patriotic.”
—Wilfred Owen (18931918)
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