#short

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members. ↗

— E. B. White

#club #easier #his #loyal #man

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short. ↗

— Shelley Winters

#inches #just #nine #overweight #short

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#first #order #pulling #really #short

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempting #best #collect #directly #drama

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps. ↗

— Ernest Bramah

#bends #road #short #steps #take

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#form #grew #i #in the past #narrative

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life. ↗

— Shaun Cassidy

#idol #life #shelf #shelf life #short

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts. ↗

— Bruce Conner

#arts #became #being #couple #dabbled

Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously. ↗

— Lee De Forest

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