"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike."

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"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike."

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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Best Use, Mind

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

Dave Eggers, American Writer

Time, Compassion, Listening, Open

"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

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"Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Time, Faults, Will

"The process of putting the DVD and the CD together was great fun, because it provided a good excuse for the four of us to make time to get together again. I am especially pleased with the end result of these two projects."

Dave Blood, American Musician

Time, End, Fun, Projects

"It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it."

Audre Lorde, American Poet

Time, Sex, People, Metaphor

"If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time."

Jay Chiat, American Businessman

Time, Television

"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."

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"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."

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"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

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"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

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"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."

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"Education is all a matter of building bridges."

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"Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values."

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"Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked."

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"The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead."

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"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

American