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Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour. Than languish in his slow-chapt power. Let us roll all our strength and all. Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife. Thorough the iron gates of life: Thus, though we cannot make our sun. Stand still, yet we will make him run. Andrew Marvell
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining always, disappears. In the weak circles of increasing years; And his short tumults of themselves compose, While flowing Time above his head does close. Andrew Marvell
Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it... William Gaddis
I was ten years old, and I was still playing conkers and knocking off sweet shops while she was sitting on the linoleum floor of her cell sawing at her wrists with a bit of broken glass she'd got from heaven-knows-were. Cut her fingers up, too, but she did it all right. They found her in the morning, sticky, red, and cold. Neil Gaiman
Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young. Paul Auster
The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.-- Bertrand Russell, "Christian Ethics" from Marriage and Morals (1950), quoted from James A Haught, ed, 2000 Years of Disbelief Bertrand Russell
Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground. Cyril Connolly
I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped. Auberon Waugh
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon..."
Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing. Jeffrey Eugenides
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "the quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along..."
...the quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened, J. R. R. Tolkien
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition. Jean-Paul Sartre
It's all the money that your saving while the good life passes by it's all the dreams that never came true cause your too damn scared try. Selena Gomez
In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school. Herman Hesse
MUSIC: Take me by the hand; it's so easy for you, Angel, for you are the roadeven while being immobile. You see, I'm scared no onehere will look for me again; I couldn't make use ofwhatever was given, so they abandoned me. At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude, but so much music wounded me. Rainer Maria Rilke
Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen Suzanne Collins

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