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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So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory -- and success.

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Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Long Quotes

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

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Things may serve long, but not serve ever.

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You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.

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How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.

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We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.

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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect successions of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Often Is Quotes , Long Quotes

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

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Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

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In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.

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I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Long Quotes

Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.

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I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

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Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.

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Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

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But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

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As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life don't accept a thing, but inquire, investigate. Then you will find that your mind is something really extraordinary, it has no end, and to such a mind there is no death.

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