"Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time."

Time, Sense, Will, World

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"Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time."

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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

Woody Allen, American Director

Time, Nature

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

Marilyn Monroe, American Actress

Time,

"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Time, Future, Present, Philosophy

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Time, Childhood, Homesickness

"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Time,

"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

Stephen King, American Author

Time, Regret, Today, Future

"Time is a created thing. To say, "I don't have time" is like saying "I don't want to."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Time, Choice, Priority, Life

"Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Time, Life, Existence, Flow

"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Time, Decision, Live, Responsibility

"Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Time, Now, Learning, Difference

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"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."

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"At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done."

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"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."

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"People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense."

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"I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way."

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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

"Time is a created thing. To say, "I don't have time" is like saying "I don't want to."

"Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown."

"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

"Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference."

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"The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression."

"Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living."

"I always want to write something better than the last book."

"Continuity is one of the things I like about New England."

"I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam."

"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."

"At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done."

"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."

"People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense."

"I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way."