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Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps. And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer. There's no hurry, for there's nowhere to go and nothing to buy...and no money to buy it with. Harper Lee
I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again. Nicholas Sparks
Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table. Anne Lamott
For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth. Zora Neale Hurston
I found myself in the position of that child in a story who noticed a bit of string and - out of curiosity - pulled on it to discover that it was just the tip of a very long and increasingly thick string...and kept bringing out wonders beyond reckoning Benoit Mandelbrot
I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it.''That,' replied I, 'is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us. Anne Bronte
Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject. Frank Herbert
Stephen King quote: "A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for..."
A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for too long, not until he's seasoned. Stephen King
Margaret Atwood quote: "Humanity is so adaptable [...] Truly amazing, what people can..."
Humanity is so adaptable [...] Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. Margaret Atwood
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves. Robert Frost
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing... John Steinbeck
Hans Christian Andersen quote: "It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as..."
It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! Hans Christian Andersen
I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. Virginia Woolf
It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today. Suzanne Collins
Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over. Ray Bradbury

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