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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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Personal Development
"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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"Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records."
Time
"From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home."
Home
"By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job."
Tax
"I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting."
Fight
"I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands."
Tax
"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
Punk
"Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics."
Music
"After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz."
Jazz
"I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying."
Pretty
"My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to."
Listening
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