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But, before I proceed to narrate it, and before I pass on to all the changes it involved, I must give one chapter to Estella. It is not much to give to the theme that so long filled my heart.
- Charles Dickens
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
- Oscar Wilde
The long black nights, when the moon hides her face, when the stars are afraid, are not so black. The silence that dwells in the forest is not so black. There is nothing in the world so black as thy hair.
- Oscar Wilde
The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.
- Cormac McCarthy
We've been a long time without a nuclear war. Yes. Well, it's probably like any bankruptcy. The longer you're able to put it off the worse it's going to be. The next great war wont arrive until everyone who remembers the last one is dead.
- Cormac McCarthy
All patched up out of parts and lowslung and bumping over the ruts. Filled with old lanky country boys with long cocks and big feet.
- Cormac McCarthy
Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolled beside her.
- DH Lawrence
You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out—perhaps a little at a time." "And how long is that going to take?" "I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps." "That could be a long time." "I will tell you a further mystery," he said "It may take longer.
- Wendell Berry
It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice, since all people are cowards and naturally prefer any kind of treachery because it has a bland outside.
- William Faulkner
In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.
- Donald Trump
You have striven so hard, and so long, to compel life. Can't you now slowly change, and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.
- DH Lawrence
Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.
- Seth Godin