"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."

Leisure, Time, Focus, Books, Distraction

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"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."

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"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."

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"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."

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