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"It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow."

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Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Let every man be master of his time."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

Woody Allen, American Director

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"But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Time is the wisest counsellor of all."

Pericles, Greek Statesman

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"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome."

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"You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why."

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"I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health."

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"The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse."

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"I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous."

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"We believe world peace is inevitable."

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"Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path."

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"I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write."

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"Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class."

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"I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?"

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