Famous quotes containing the words short and/or repeat:
“Children ... seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.”
—Shirley Hazzard (b. 1931)
“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)