Quotes with lasts

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  • Salman Rushdie Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Anthony Trollope Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • John Adams Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • William Wordsworth Small service is true service, while it lasts.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Anthony Trollope The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
    A Woman of No Importance Act 3
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.
    The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859) Ch. XI
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Plutarch The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Oscar Wilde The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Irving Berlin There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
    Irving Berlin
    American composer and lyricist (1888 - 1989)
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  • Bruce Springsteen This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
    Time magazine 27 October 1975
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.
    (2000)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • T. S. Eliot You are the music while the music lasts.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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