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  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Tom Stoppard I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • John Burroughs I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Armistead Maupin I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Coville I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Alice Munro I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Anne Perry I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • J. R. Tolkien I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
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  • Brooke Shields I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bill Plympton I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Phyllis Diller I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
    Phyllis Diller
    American actress and stand-up (1917 - 2012)
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  • Ben Stein If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Wyndham Lewis If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Bob Kerrey If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.
    Bob Kerrey
    American politician (1943 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke If you take a candy bar in the short run, it gives you a burst of energy, but after a while, it just makes you fat.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bobby Short If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.
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