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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: smile
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: reason, time
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: happiness, human-nature, humanity, perfection, time
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    Stephen King
    “Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
    ― Stephen King, The Green Mile
    tags: change, life, time
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    Neil Gaiman
    “The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: future, passage-of-time, time
    886 likes

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    Brian Andreas
    “Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.”
    ― Brian Andreas
    tags: inspirational, time
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    Jennifer Donnelly
    “I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”
    ― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
    tags: death, immortality, music, power-of-music, strength, time
    293 likes

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    William Faulkner
    “Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
    ― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
    tags: life, time, wasting-time
    571 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
    ― Philip K Dick, Martian Time-Slip
    tags: loneliness, optimism, responsibility, time
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    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
    ― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds
    tags: creativity, learning, time
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    Martin Amis
    “And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.”
    ― Martin Amis, London Fields
    tags: age, aging, life, time
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  • #12
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
    tags: age, choke, time
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    Robert Jordan
    “You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.”
    ― Robert Jordon, Starscape Boxed Set B Mixed
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    Stephen King
    “Time's the thief of memory”
    ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
    tags: jake-chambers, memory, roland-deschain, time
    514 likes

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    Jarod Kintz
    “When the clock reads 3:00, I don’t call it three o’clock, I call it three hundred, and I remember the Spartans. At 3:01, however, I remember what I was doing at 2:59, and I get back to it.
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    ― Jarod Kintz, The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.
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    Jarod Kintz
    “I spend all my time trying to capture the moment. And when I do, I'll interrogate and torture it.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
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  • #17
    Heraclitus
    “Nothing endures but change.”
    ― Heraclitus
    tags: change, impermanence, mujō, time, 無常
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  • #18
    Dylan Thomas
    “My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.”
    ― Dylan Thomas
    tags: curiosity, education, liberty, reading, time
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: memory, time
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    Jarod Kintz
    “Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you, and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%.” This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
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    Jarod Kintz
    “The time is now 3:34. Damn! I’m late for 3:33.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life
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    Jarod Kintz
    “It’s not uncommon for me to be early to meetings by as much as a half a gallon. I guess the reason I am so punctual is because I have a very fluid concept of time.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
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    Jarod Kintz
    “The problem with Marxism is the proletariat isn’t going to rise up against capitalism and consumerism. The only time they’ll rise up is during a commercial break to either go to the bathroom or grab more beer.
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    ― Jarod Kintz, Untitled
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    Jarod Kintz
    “I thought I was eating a candy bar, but it turned out to be a yummy burrito. I was both disappointed and appointed at the same time.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
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    Ray Bradbury
    “The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: sun, time
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    Margery Williams Bianco
    “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby.
    But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
    ― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
    tags: love, real-beauty, time
    259 likes

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    Warren Zevon
    “We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

    [Inside Out (VH1)]”
    ― Warren Zevon
    tags: books, passage-of-time, reading, time
    148 likes

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    Lenny Bruce
    “Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.”
    ― Lenny Bruce, The Essential Lenny Bruce: his original unexpurgated satirical routines
    tags: comedy, satire, time, tragedy
    51 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe in 15 Einzelbänden
    tags: seeing, time, understanding
    83 likes

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    Steve Toltz
    “The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.”
    ― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole
    tags: anticipation, humor, relativity, suspense, time
    29 likes



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