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Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
Tim Ferriss
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Short-cuts lead to long delays.
Mike Rowe
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Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.
Gina Berriault
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Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity.
Vera Nazarian
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Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
William Warburton
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
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Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.
Marcus Aurelius
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Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated.
Joseph Goebbels
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Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
V. S. Pritchett
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Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back it was always there in oral storytelling.
Margaret Atwood
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Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.
Margaret Atwood
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Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.
Guy Fieri
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Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless.
Jack Dorsey
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Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
Ali Smith
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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
Martial
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Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.
Orson Scott Card
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Short-sightedness is killing us.
Rose McGowan
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Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.
Curt Schilling
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Short-sighted and impatient efforts to wipe out poverty by severing the connection between effort and reward can only lead to the growth of a totalitarian state, and destroy the economic progress that this country has so dearly bought.
Henry Hazlitt
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Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Short or long to Goblin City? The straight way's short But the long way's pretty.
Terry Jones
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Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.
Walter Hagen
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Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too, as a rule.
Poe Ballantine
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