T. S. Eliot Quotes, Typewriters Quotes, Long Quotes

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

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You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Flower Quotes , Long Quotes

I love the time I spend with you. You make my living worth-while. Why dint I meet you before. I wish I could start my life From the beginning with you because the time I spend with you is never enough. I need you more everyday.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Long Quotes , Everyday Quotes

You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

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Be like you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together

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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Long Quotes , Giving Quotes

Long gone are the days of the stylised old James Bond films with Roger Moore karate chopping his way through the bad guys - audiences are not going to buy it anymore. The genre has got quite serious now.

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Tags : Adam Rayner Quotes , Long Quotes , Guy Quotes

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Long Quotes , Walks Quotes

If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Time Quotes , Long Quotes

There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.

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Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Sex Quotes , Long Quotes

As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

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A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Government Quotes , Long Quotes

Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

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Tags : Alaa Al Aswany Quotes , Long Quotes , Camels Quotes

Don't long for the unripe grape.

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In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Long Quotes , Hopeful Quotes

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Writing Quotes , Long Quotes

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , War Quotes , Long Quotes

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

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Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Fall Quotes , Long Quotes

And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Goodbye Quotes , Long Quotes