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England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
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Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his self-imposed distance from his forceful mother. To refuse phallic penetration is to refuse surrender to the female matrix.
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Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.
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Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
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Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance.
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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
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Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
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Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.
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Fond archer, Hope! who tak'st thy aim so far,
That still or short, or wide thine arrows are!Source: Against Hope. -
For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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For solitude sometimes is best society,
And short retirement urges sweet return.Source: Paradise lost (1667) IX, 249 -
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
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Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
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