"I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement."
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"So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say."
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"Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth."
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"That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul....We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!"
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"History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time."
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"We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time."
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"Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight."
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"Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one."
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"People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour."
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"It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus."
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"No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched."
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"You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business."
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"The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself."
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"See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin."
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"It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room."
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"It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long."
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"There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is ideal."
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"I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to figure out how to make animated features brought me to the U.S. to work for Disney."
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"There's a long history of subsidized philanthropy - particularly in the USA - and again the public has come to expect corporations to play a role in their social welfare. It's become easy for some companies to profit from citizen goodwill and volunteerism."
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"For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and all of a sudden the sun was gone and the whistle was blowing and you were on your long way home to supper. When you weren't looking, the sun got around behind you! The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing! You could stretch a day to three days, sure, just by watching!"
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