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Timely Quotes (page 338)

For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing. W. Somerset Maugham
Just as a lamp waved in darkness creates a figure of light in the air, which remains for as long as the lamp repeats its motion exactly, so the universe retains its shape by repetition: the universe is Time's body. John Crowley
Willa Cather quote: "People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know."
People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know. Willa Cather
Sylvia Plath quote: "And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I..."
And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. Sylvia Plath
Richard thought a moment. "I don't know, but we have to get across the pass. We're too tired to have to spend tonight fighting shadows again. We must get to the Midlands before dark. And this time, I promise I won't let go of your hand."Kahlan smiled and squeezed his hand. I won't let go of yours either. Terry Goodkind
T. S. Eliot quote: "And the end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive where we..."
And the end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive where we started/ And know the place for the first time T. S. Eliot
Sometimes, on days when the weather was beyond redemption, mere residence in the house, situated in the midst of a steady and continuous rain, had all the gliding ease, the soothing silence, the interest of a sea voyage; another time, on a bright day, to lie still in bed was to let the lights and shadows play around me as round a tree trunk. Marcel Proust
Kate DiCamillo quote: "It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too..."
It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter. Kate DiCamillo
Nunc fluens facit tempus, nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.) Boethius
Please, sit down," Sharon said with another hair toss. I made a mental note to practice doing that in a mirror the next time I saw one. it seemed a useful skill, right up there with roundhouse kicks. James Patterson
The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence. Paul Auster
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "The sonogram didn't exist at the time; the spoon was the next..."
The sonogram didn't exist at the time; the spoon was the next best thing. Jeffrey Eugenides
...I knew he used women as counters in a game, Bobby Quine versus time and the night of cities. And Rikki had turned up just when he needed something to get him going, something to aim for. So he'd set her up as a symbol for everything he wanted and couldn't have, everything he'd had and couldn't keep. William Gibson
You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well. Jorge Luis Borges
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream. Dante Alighieri

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