Cut Short Quotes

“Bloody year nine,' she grumbled amiably to a colleague who grunted in sympathy.
There were the usual national curriculum-endorsed leaflets and brochures in her pigeonhole: Shakespeare Made Easy, Spelling Made Easy, Everything Made Easy. If teaching was easy, why was it so bloody hard? Among the”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

“pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness' E. E. Cummings”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

“Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.' F. Scott Fitzgerald”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

“the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking' Albert Einstein”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

“There must be more to life than this gruelling slog, and constant anxiety, eating away at her. She could find a job in a bar, with no responsibility at all, and look forward to a good night's sleep at the end of each simple day.”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

“we have gone on living, Living and partly living, Picking together the pieces' T. S. Eliot”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.' Pablo Picasso”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

“She's one of those rare officers who seems to sniff out a villain by instinct.”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

“Yet the street possessed a vitality lacking in the more expensive areas of town; a community that screamed its commitment to life. However hard it might be, life was precious.”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short