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"But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last."
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"Have patience or be a patient. Have patience in preparatory moments or be a patient after preparatory moments."

"Patience isn't tested when it is self-imposed and the duration is self-regulated. Patience is hardly tested when the outcome means little to you. However, when circumstances beyond your control force you to wait with baited breath knowing the outcome will affect your life substantially, that is the true test of patience. It is a cage inside a burning building where every exit is blocked by angels calmly advising you to wait a moment longer. Your choice is to either trust their words or madly claw through them."

"If you chase a butterfly, it will escape; if you feed it, it will come."

"It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification."

"Patience is underscored with forgiveness."

"If a train is two minutes late in leaving, one will become impatient, 'when will the train leave, when will it leave?' This world is not worth getting impatient restless about."
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"From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

"Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest."

"It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it."

"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love."

"We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam."

"It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away."

"It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes."

"If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you."
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