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• Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims.

  Charles Portis

  Educational, Writing, Long

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.52, A&C Black

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• Every night it's the same... I have supper in my red dish and drinking water in my yellow dish... Tonight I think I'll have my supper in the yellow dish and my drinking water in the red dish. Life is too short not to live it up a little!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Drinking, Life Is Too Short, Thinking

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• The witch's hair was too short and too dark for blond. She wasn't sure if that relieved her or disturbed her. Riley had immediately begun his interrogation, and it had gone something like this: Riley: Where is the meeting between your kind and Aden Stone supposed to take place? Witch: Go suck yourself. Riley: Maybe later. Meeting? Witch: Enjoy death. Riley: I have once already. Now, decide to talk or lose a body part. Witch: May I recommend a finger? Riley: Sure. After I take one of your very necessary hands.

  Gena Showalter

  Dark, Hair, Hands

  Gena Showalter (2017). “Unraveled”, p.118, Harlequin

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• Life is too short not to say how you feel to the people you love.

  Kristina McMorris

  Life Is Too Short, People, How You Feel

  Kristina Mcmorris (2011). “Letters From Home”, p.241, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Life, Book, Waste

  Jayne Ann Krentz (2008). “Running Hot: An Arcane Society Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.

  Melissa Marr

  Life Is Too Short, Book, Enjoy

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• Life's too short for minimalism.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Minimalism, Life's Too Short

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)”, p.190, Random House

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• She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.

  Stephen King

  Love You, Long, Want

  Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?

  Nora Ephron

  Years, Smell, Long

  "No one has suffered like Nora Ephron -- well, except for me" by Ms. Gonick, www.sfgate.com. September 16, 2006.

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• Unrequited love," I'd say. He'd look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, "what about it?" and I'd reply, "it's not your color." Pithy. Just to show him that I'd noticed. Or maybe I'd show myself to her and say, "Guess I'm not the only one who uses humans around here." And then I'd summon some of Owain's hounds to chew off the bottom bits of her legs. Then she wouldn't fit just right into his arms. She'd be too short. It'd be like hugging a midget. Nuala- pg. 75

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Unrequited Love, Color, Hug

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie”, p.82, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Not for a minute did I believe that this wasn’t goodbye. Still, I had loved and been loved in return, and there was nothing greater than that. It far outweighed the alienation of all the previous years. Bones thought five months was too short; I was amazed I’d been granted joy for so long. “I love you,” he moaned, or maybe I said it. I couldn’t tell the difference anymore. The lines had dissolved between us.

  Jeaniene Frost

  I Love You, Goodbye, Believe

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• It wasn't exactly that Lula was fat. It was more that she was too short for her weight." - Stephanie Plum

  Janet Evanovich

  Plums, Weight, Fats

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• As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and asked, "Have you seen my papa go by?" "M-m-m," said Pippi. "How did he look? Did he have blue eyes?" "Yes," said the girl. "Medium large, not too tall and not too short?" "Yes," said the girl. "Black hat and black shoes?" "Yes, exactly," said the girl eagerly. "No, that one we haven't seen," said Pippi decidedly.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Girl, Children, Eye

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• The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.

  Paulo Coelho

  Tired, Fighting, People

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• Nothing - not prestige, power or pride - is worth sacrificing the things that you truly want, the things that you truly love. "Don't be afraid to take time and smell the roses. Don't hesitate in seeking out those things you hold dear. Seeking them out and holding on to them. And don't ever cease standing up for what you believe in, and fighting for those things that you want. Life is too short. Do what makes you happy, regardless of how others might feel.

  Brenda Jackson

  Believe, Life Is Too Short, Fighting

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• Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of this darkness.

  Dan Wells

  Life Is Too Short, Darkness, World

  Dan Wells (2011). “I Don't Want to Kill You”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Average, Ideas, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.613, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Life was too short and ended too suddenly. If you didn't take advantage of what you had today, tomorrow it might be ripped from you.

  Ilona Andrews

  Might, Today, Tomorrow

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.166, Penguin

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• Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Waste, Triviality, Human Life

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.210, Penguin

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• Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.

  Christopher Paolini

  Life Is Too Short, Fighting, Way

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• Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are

  Jeannette Walls

  Thinking, People, Care

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• Life's too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow

  Sarah Dessen

  Worry, Littles, Might

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• There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Dream, Hair

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1819, Delphi Classics

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• My mother raised me to be bold. If I do not go, I will spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened if I had." "If you do go, the rest of your life may be too short for wondering. - Asha & Rodrick

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, May, Might

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.2820, Bantam

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• And anyway, life's too short.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life's Too Short

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