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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to...

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and...

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So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we ...

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W. H. AudenThe Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose

Last summer I picked up a yellow scrap of newspaper and read of a Biloxi election in 1948, and in it...

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No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all ali...

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The truth is that there comes a time When we can mourn no more over music That is so much motionless...

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O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning!It is not enough to have this globe o...

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The work of memory collapses time.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experie...

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I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have...

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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroo...

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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as ...

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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Who said, 'All Time's delightHath she for narrow bed;Life's troubled bubble broken'? ---That's what ...

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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make ...

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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need...

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We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling t...

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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every...

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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a t...

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This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The t...

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Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.

History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no ...

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Back there in the beginning, as I see now, my life was all time and almost no memory. Though I knew ...

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But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time. It does not accept that limit. Of all that we feel...

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Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just beca...

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On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable ...

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Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by...

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At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real...

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Death like style is the removal of rubbish.

My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of b...

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I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-f...

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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meet...

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I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.

Time is the mercy of Eternity without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all wer...

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William BlakeMilton a Poem

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

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William BlakeThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Time is a storm in which we are all lost.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Thick is the darkness-- Sunward, O, sunward!Rough is the highway-- Onward, still onward!Dawn harbors...

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Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.

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William FaulknerLight in August

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

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William FaulknerRequiem for a Nun

And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as...

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William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is...

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William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury

The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work...

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'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stop...

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Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts i...

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William GibsonDistrust That Particular Flavor

I was famous in our college for calm and impassionate discussion; for one whole summer, I rose at fi...

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Every day he thought would last forever, and the night forever, and the dawn drag eternally another ...

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The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of pa...

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To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came int...

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It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East...

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Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

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William JoyceNicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain ...

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Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which,...

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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on ...

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Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

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William S. BurroughsEverything Lost: The Latin American Notebook

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the att...

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I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I thi...

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When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time...

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I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the gre...

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The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then th...

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I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If ...

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And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't hav...

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It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and pa...

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own coun...

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Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and conti...

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One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources g...

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The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular,...

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Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay d...

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But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-an...

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They say there is a kind of flower that blooms only once a century, Then couldn't there be one that ...

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A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I hav...

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I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest ...

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Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Aut...

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How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at age thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distan...

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When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the gr...

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She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on th...

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Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to bl...

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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all th...

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I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream...

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We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even lou...

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I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I c...

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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that...

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I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one ...

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It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got...

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If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both a...

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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on...

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I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the ...

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