"The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening."

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Evan Esar

#Long Quotes #Listening Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.”
“I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is a composer, Paul Moravec, and a few years ago, Paul and I were at lunch, and I said to him, "you really have to write an opera." So, he says very casually to me, "I'll do it if you write the libretto." Well, little did I know that the within a couple of years we would end up getting a commission from the Santa Fe Opera to write an opera together, "The Letter," which turned out to be the most successful commissioned opera in the history of the Santa Fe Opera.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.”
“A bikeway is a symbol that shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important as a citizen on a $30,000 car.”
“Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?”
“When adversity hits, go out and learn something.”

Source : "US graduation season 2013: the best commencement speeches" by Ruth Spencer, Kayla Epstein, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2016.
“We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.”
“Every kind of writing is hypocritical.”

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