Best long & explanation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“So who is better off, those who share love long enough to see which parts inevitably fade or those who lose their love when it is still pristine? I think each is lonely in a different place, though if you lose your love while it is still perfect you at least have a clear explanation for your grief, while if it gradually crumbles in your hands you do not.”

Ifs Thinking Long Stills Different Enough Hands Loses Perfect Grief Clear Share Lonely Explanation Fades Better Off Different Place Pristine

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.”

Long Age Artist Cases Conditions Aging Old Age Permanent Excitement Explanation Stimulation

Book:A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation

Source: A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation

“I have to physically attracted to someone. But I can't just be with someone just because it's great sex. Because orgasms don't last long enough.”

Long I Can Enough Lasts Sex Explanation Great Sex Attracted To Someone

Author:Courteney Cox

“It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.”

Humans Long Human Nature Shapes Betrayal Explanation Intimate Desperate Contradiction Making Love Alliances

Book:Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.”

“I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it. If you don't, you won't be able to understand your own explanation." That is why 90% of academic film theory is bullshit. Jargon is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”

Ifs Long Able Lasts Film Wise Theory Explanation Editors Academic Long Ago Refuge Bullshit Scoundrels Jargon

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010

“In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture left behind. These are the building blocks of civilization we call culture. These are what we call 'the arts.”

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