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"The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research."
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"Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder."

"Why work today? I'll take Tuesday on, just like I took Monday off. That's just the kind of dedicated worker I am."

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough."

"Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter."

"The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research."

"What is right to be done cannot be done too soon."

"The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs."

"We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation."

"Procrastination threatens critics' livelihood."
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"She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash."

"Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents."

"Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours."

"The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain."

"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."

"And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not queasiness or fear that he would suddenly appear before us, a green and gibbering banshee whose purpose was to drive us back the way we had come before we could disturb his- its- peace,but a sudden and unexpected wash of pity that he should be so alone and so defenceless in the dark that was now coming over our side of the world."

"Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is only another way of saying that he is the way she measures her sanity. Trying to imagine her life with him gone is like standing on top of a skyscraper and looking at the sidewalk sixty stories below."
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