--- title: "2 Long Shit Quotes by 2 authors" description: "Browse 2 Long Shit quotes by 2 authors. Discover the best Long Shit sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/619/julian-barnes-522_fitness_my-train-was-late-slowed-by-the-usual-su_45308.png" --- > [“My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a bloody good long shit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/my-train-was-late-slowed-by-the-usual-sunday-engineering-work-i-got/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/619/julian-barnes-522_fitness_my-train-was-late-slowed-by-the-usual-su_45308.png) > [“Put your vocabulary on the top shelf of your toolbox, and don't make any conscious effort to improve it... One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/put-your-vocabulary-on-the-top-shelf-of-your-toolbox-and-don-t-make/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59e/stephen-king-13_bad-thing_put-your-vocabulary-on-the-top-shelf-of_1908865.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long-shit/#itemlist", "name": "Long Shit Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. 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