Famous quotes containing the words short and/or story:
“Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One exhausts what they have to say in a very short time, and then they become as tedious as ones relations.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“For I could tell you a story which is true;
I know a lady with a terrible tongue,
Blear eyes fallen from blue,
All her perfections tarnishedand yet it is not long
Since she was lovelier than any of you.”
—John Crowe Ransom (18881974)
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