"If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can."

-- Larry Wall

#Shortcuts Quotes

“My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.”
“Good television people have a sense of what television people relate to.”
“I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me.”
“Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face.”
“Words strike the air and the mind, they act on the senses and on the soul.”

Source : Jan Potocki (2006). “The Manuscript Found in Saragossa”, p.140, Penguin UK
“The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.”

Source : "Inside the Actor's Studio", February 12, 2006.
“You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.”
“Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.”

Source : Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Natural: A Novel”, p.148, Macmillan

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