Anton Chekhov Quotes, Writing Quotes, Long 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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Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Long Quotes , Ancient Quotes

With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.

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We can have confidence in the long-term foundation of our economy ... I think the system basically is sound. I truly do.

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You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.

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

I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me. Out of my suffering I will do it. I will knock. I will enter.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Two Quotes , Long Quotes

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

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Love Quotes , Long Quotes

I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Long Quotes , Track Quotes

When I kicked in the first TV a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

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Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Perfection Quotes , Long Quotes

The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , War Quotes , Long Quotes

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

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Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Tired Quotes , Long Quotes

Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

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Tags : Adam D'Angelo Quotes , Long Quotes , Focus Quotes

Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Independent Quotes , Long Quotes

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Long Quotes , Effort Quotes

Walking helps me a lot to feel alive, and I do this every single day, my wife and I. We have long conversations about nature, and we also walk silently, just contemplating.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Wife Quotes , Long Quotes

Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

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A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

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The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep.

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We can have confidence in the long-term foundation of our economy ... I think the system basically is sound. I truly do.

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

In the long term, we've got to defeat an ideology of hate with an ideology of hope. There' a reason why people like [Al-Qaida leader Osama] bin Laden are able to recruit suiciders, because if you don't have hope, you're attracted to an ideology which says, it's OK to kill people and kill yourself.

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