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"I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."
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"I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person."

"The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation."

"Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment."

"There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant."

"Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time."

"And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have."

"I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time."
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