#brief

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period. ↗

— John Malkovich

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This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

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My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career. ↗

— Pete Maravich

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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak. ↗

— Oliver North

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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#assassinate #brief #character #death #election

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness. ↗

— Stephen Phillips

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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