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• Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.

  Clive Barker

  Blue, Sea, Ships

  Clive Barker (2011). “Abarat”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Life is short...eat desert first!

  Wendy Mass

  Desert, Firsts, Life Is

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• Cease, cows, life is short.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Cows, Life Is, Cease

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• Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Car, Twenties, Pace

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.371, Vintage

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• Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said the other day life was long," I shot back. "Which is it?" It's both," she said, shrugging. "It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing." Nothing can be two opposite things at once," I said. "It's impossible." No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what's impossible is that we actually think it could be anything OTHER than that.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Hands, Opposites

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.98, Penguin

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• I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.

  Jessica Zafra

  Writing, Want, Literature

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• So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.

  George Saunders

  Art, Long, Progress

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• Life is short so go on and live it cause the chicks dig it.

  Chris Cagle

  Goes On, Causes, Chicks

  Song: Chicks Dig It, Album: Chris Cagle, 2003

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• Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

  Milarepa

  Evil, Meditation, Cost

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• Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.

  Rebecca Wells

  Life Is, This Too Shall Pass, Wide

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.

  Clifford Odets

  Happy Life, Night, Soul

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• Scars heal, glory fades, and all we're left with are the memories made. pain hurts, but only for a minute. life is short, so go on and live it.

  Chris Cagle

  Life, Hurt, Pain

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• It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Laughter, Men

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• ... life is short and the world is wide

  Simon Raven

  Travel, World, Wide

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• Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

  Hippocrates

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 384, 1895.

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• If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Life is short and art is long.

  Seneca the Younger

  Art, Long, Life Is

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• Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

  Djuna Barnes

  Funny, Bad Day, Nasty

  Djuna Barnes, Phillip F. Herring, Osias Stutman (2005). “Collected Poems: With Notes Toward the Memoirs”, p.285, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Life is short and so is money.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Cute, Life Is

  Bertolt Brecht, Desmond Ivo Vesey, Eric Bentley (1964). “The Threepenny Opera”, p.85, Grove Press

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• Accomplish something every day of your life.

  Walter Annenberg

  Life, Inspire, Accomplish

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• Life is too short for us to keep important words, for example, 'I love you', locked in our hearts.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love You, Life Is Too Short, Heart

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 17, 2014

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• I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.'

  Kate Adie

  Funny, Life Is Too Short, Missing

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• Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

  Amanda Crew

  Life Is Too Short, Waiting, Life Being Short

  "Amanda Crew Interview Charlie St. Cloud". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 29, 2010.

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• Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational Life, Dessert First, Firsts

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• I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Work, Long Ago, Best Effort

  "A Writer's Notebook (1941)". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1946.

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