1. "It is positively because he is quick-witted that he is long-winded."
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George Bernard Shaw, The Essential Bernard Shaw Collection
2. "There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer."
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John Grisham, The Rainmaker
3. "Her eyes winded. "I'm becoming addicted to you?." He raised an eyebrow. "You say it like it's a bad thing."
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Michelle Rowen, The Demon in Me
4. "The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence, but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses,"
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Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
5. "Turning a corner, I ran into an old acquaintance—one of those long-winded fellows whose conversational powers ignore time and embrace eternity."
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Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
6. "All right, I thought, as one long-winded winner ("And I'd like to thanks my parakeet and his veterinarian...") finally exited"
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J.M. Redmann, Death of a Dying Man
7. "She indulged his long-winded Tolstoy bashing (he saw Tolstoy, in no way equal to Dostoevsky, as a kind of highbrow Margaret Mitchell who had helped prepare the way for socialist realism)"
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Sigrid Nunez, Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
8. "Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
9. "When she [Maeve Brennan, the 'Long-winded Lady'] looks about her, it is not the strange and exotic ways of people that interest her, but the ordinary ways, when something that is familiar to her shows. She is drawn to what she recognizes, or half-recognizes, and these forty-seven pieces are the record of forty-seven moments of recognition...I think the long-winded lady is real when she writes, here, about some of the sights she saw in the city she loves. p. 3 Author's Note, 1969"
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Maeve Brennan, The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker
10. "It may well be that we talk about sex more than anything else; we set our minds to the task; we convince ourselves that were have never said enough on the subject...where sex is concerned the most long-winded, the most impatient of societies is our own."
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Quote by Michel Foucault