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"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."
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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
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"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."
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"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."
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"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."
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"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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"The value of time is immeasurable."
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"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."
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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
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"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
Genius
"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
Geography
"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."
Work
"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."
People
"I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown."
Thought
"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
Power
"No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."
Learning
"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
Wrong
"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."
Time
"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
Art
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