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Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time.""Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You w...

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From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and...

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At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, ...

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Isabel AllendeThe House of the Spirits

I always encourage women to let their individuality show by not covering up what they perceive as fl...

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A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith i...

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It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting...

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Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody e...

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Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we ...

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...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still ha...

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A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "H...

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Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabet...

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But what is this clock, marking only so many years, that such men seem to consult in the dark of the...

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What appears to be definite and precise does not belong to any acceptable reality. It is only the ex...

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I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the b...

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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time ...

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She glanced at her watch, reminding herself who she was.

Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free o...

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J. G. BallardThe Atrocity Exhibition

The trouble with you people is that you've been here for thirty million years and your perspectives ...

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Time is Galleons, little brother.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

In a minute, in an hour, it will be too late; whatever is happening to her will be set in stone, wil...

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Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we go...

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Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing...

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I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seenOf meadow flowers and butterfliesIn summers t...

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But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo."So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.

This thing all things devours:Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;Gnaws iron, bites steel;Grinds hard ston...

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I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild ni...

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He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, go...

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Jack LondonThe Call of the Wild

I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot ...

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Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know...

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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a ba...

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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrati...

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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, ...

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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment fo...

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Jamaica KincaidThe Autobiography of My Mother

I'm always ready for the enemy to come over the hill. I'm packed and set to go. That comes from my t...

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New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take ...

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A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning abou...

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For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how ...

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An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small num...

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Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept ...

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Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we wi...

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Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is c...

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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy ...

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual ...

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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

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James ThurberThe 13 Clocks

She has a memory of trees and fields and nothing more.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it dow...

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All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone to show that you can make mistakes -...

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It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics...

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Time did not compose her.

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

Time will explain.

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Jane AustenPersuasion

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more t...

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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years wo...

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I have not known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him than I am with any other ...

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Jane AustenSense and Sensibility

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for...

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I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make m...

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Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily abo...

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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find importan...

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Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern socie...

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Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are ...

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I've always enjoyed singing and can't recall a time in my life where I wasn't singing. I'm most grat...

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But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to b...

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Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anythi...

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There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly vola...

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Every product you have ever loved was a compromise from the ideal vision of its creators to the real...

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Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn't that what life is about? The m...

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Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the peop...

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That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any c...

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Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

One sits down first one thinks afterwards.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other han...

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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You m...

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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afte...

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From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by caus...

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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...

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The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. H...

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Jean VanierCommunity And Growth

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be h...

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I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be me...

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Entirely taken up by the present, I could remember nothing; I had no distinct notion of myself as a ...

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Jean-Jacques RousseauReveries of the Solitary Walker

I am fascinated by the dailies, what is daily.

3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Like most people, when I look back, the family house is held in time, or rather it is now outside of...

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Those old sayings about Give It Time, and Time is a Healer depend on just whose time it is.

Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates...

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What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is...

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