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• I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.

  Solange Knowles

  Life Is, Too Short

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• Art is too long, and life is too short.

  Grace Paley

  Art, Long, Life Is

  Grace Paley, Gerhard Bach, Blaine H. Hall (1997). “Conversations with Grace Paley”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don’t do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step.

  Eddie Huang

  Half, Steps, Life Is

  Eddie Huang (2013). “Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir”, p.150, Spiegel & Grau

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• Life is too short because we die.

  Christopher Locke

  Life Is, Too Short, Dies

  Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls (2009). “The Cluetrain Manifesto”, p.73, Basic Books

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• Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Regret, Grief

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• Life is too short for chess.

  Lord Byron

  Chess Game, Life It Too Short, Life's Too Short

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• Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.

  Eric Maisel

  Brother, Helping Others, Hands

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.249, Penguin

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• Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 07, 2014

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• Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.

  Daphne du Maurier

  People, Said, Feels

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

  John Updike

  Reading, Writing, Silence

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.

  Hillary Clinton

  Success, Might, Succeed

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• Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.

  Ann Brashares

  Long, Would Be, Excuse

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• If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Life, Book, Writing

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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• People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Regret, Long, People

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.175, Bantam

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• Every night it's the same... I have supper in my red dish and drinking water in my yellow dish... Tonight I think I'll have my supper in the yellow dish and my drinking water in the red dish. Life is too short not to live it up a little!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Drinking, Thinking, Night

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• There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.

  Emily Post

  Weed, Eye, Drawing

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short

  Charles Kennedy

  Short Life, Life Is Short, Past

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• Life is too short for us to keep important words, for example, 'I love you', locked in our hearts.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love You, Heart, Life Is Short

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 17, 2014

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• Life is too short to be a boring company.

  Andrew Mason

  Life Is Short, Life Being Short, Life Too Short

  "Groupon's $20bn valuation is 'not rational', analysts warn" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com.

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• I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.'

  Kate Adie

  Funny, Life Is Short, Missing

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• Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.

  Krista Allen

  Life Is Short, Littles, Practicals

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• Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.

  George Takei

  Order, Dessert, Life Is

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• What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on some things, you're just going to have to agree to disagree. And when you go to bed at night, kiss each other and tell each other that you love each other. Don't go to bed mad. Life is too short. Keep it simple.

  Si Robertson

  Funny, Couple, Kissing

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• I meditate because evolution gave me a big brain, but it didn't come with an instruction manual. I meditate because life is too short and sitting slows it down. I meditate because life is too long and I need an occasional breakI meditate because it's such a relief to spend time ignoring myselfI meditate because I'm building myself a bigger and better perspective, and occasionally I need to add a new window.

  Wes Nisker

  Long, Perspective, Brain

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• I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

  Maeve Binchy

  Winning, Thinking, Enemy

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