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[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara. -- Robert Anton Wilson
I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient. -- David Foster Wallace
Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling. -- Julio Cortazar
Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity. -- Kin Hubbard
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short. -- Max Beerbohm
It will be great to play a short, fat sweaty loser for a change. -- Ricky Gervais
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. -- Amy Bloom
Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term. -- Gerry Schwartz
Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. -- Epictetus
Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite. -- John Newton
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. -- Roger Zelazny
Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary. -- Christine Caine
The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence. -- Therese of Lisieux
I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature. -- Joel Edgerton
I'm much better off the tee. I'm not a great putter. I do not have a good short game. -- Molly Sims
I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature. -- Joel Edgerton
But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. -- Suzanne Collins
Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive. -- Cecelia Ahern
One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have. -- Allison Mack
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. -- Henry Rollins
Focus. Focus. Focus...on your burning priorities. Say no to everything else. Life's short. You only get one shot at great. -- Robin Sharma
I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting. -- Cherie Blair
Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him? -- Georg Buchner
I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. -- Paul Theroux
It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming cataclysm. -- Aleksandar Hemon
I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story. -- Sarah Waters
The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease. -- Joseph Addison
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I respect BMW for not interfering in these projects. They're just trying to support short films with their brand, which I think is great. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny. -- Aristotle
It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time; but the great matter is - to persevere. -- Philip Neri
The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds. -- John Tillotson
Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while. -- Anna Magnani
Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love. -- Janet Erskine Stuart
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side. -- Emma Donoghue
Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps. -- Charles Darwin
We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution? -- Matt Damon
A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature. -- William Wordsworth
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing. -- Irwin Shaw
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality. -- Simon Schama
I learned one thing from jumping motorcycles that was of great value on the golf course, the putting green especially: Whatever you do, don't come up short. -- Evel Knievel
There's so much more power, so you're short-shifting all the way down into fifth, sixth, seventh before you can get the full throttle. But great fun otherwise, -- Lewis Hamilton
I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so my Twitter's not really a jokey thing. -- Cecily Strong
This is my one and only life and it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing and none of us come out of it alive. -- Hilary Swank
Often, in the midst of great problems, we stop short of the real blessing God has for us, which is a fresh vision of who He is. -- Anne Graham Lotz
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start. -- Ian Mcewan
After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director. -- Justin Chadwick
We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness. -- Charles Handy
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! -- Roland Barthes
The Bangles are proof that short skirts and electric guitars go hand-in-hand. They are one of the great all-girl groups, backing up their looks with a serious pop-rock pedigree. -- Shawn Amos
As designers we have a great responsibility. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived. -- Dieter Rams

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