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Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
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Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
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Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter
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Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
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Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.
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Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres?
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Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.
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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.
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Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
― Austin O'Malley
American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932) -
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
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Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.
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Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
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Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.
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Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.
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Show me a poet, and I'll show you a shit.
Source: The New Yorker March 28, 1953
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