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Jim Harrison

"I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself."

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"I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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"Father always said that money doesn't grow on trees. Well, time doesn't grow on trees either."

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

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"Let every man be master of his time."

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

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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."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"Time is the wisest counsellor of all."

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Amber Hurdle

"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

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