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Colombian writer 1927–2014Related quotes
“Life is short, short, brother!
Ain't it the truth?”
Yip Harburg (1896–1981) American song lyricist
"Ain't It the Truth" originally written for Cabin in the Sky (1943), but pulled from the show, and later included in Jamaica (1957) - Lena Horne version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMSyXuvNpeM <br class="br">Context: Life is short, short, brother!<br>Ain't it the truth?<br>And there is no other<br>Ain't it the truth?<br>You gotta rock that rainbow while you still got your youth!<br>Oh! Ain't it the solid truth?
Thomas De Quincey book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Pt. I.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)
“The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!”
Rowan Atkinson (1955) English actor, comedian, and screenwriter
Source: Blackadder II: Complete Series
“Life and hope must cease together.”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXII : Comparisons: Information Rejected; Helen to Milicent
“Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
http://www.last.fm/user/helena_wanje.
“Was the cow crossed?"
"No, your worship, it was an open cow.”
A. P. Herbert book Uncommon Law
"The Negotiable Cow".
Uncommon Law (1935)
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Act V
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Source: The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1860s, What the Black Man Wants (1865)
“And who’s to say where life ceases and theater begins”
Samuel R. Delany book Triton
Source: Triton (1976), Chapter 3 “Avoiding Kangaroos” (p. 113)