"As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time."

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"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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"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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"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

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do."

Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist

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"Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future."

John Green, American Author

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"Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held against themselves, they seem so terribly brief. Therefore, we'd be wise to celebrate life before minutes are all that's left."

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"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I never worked in an office in my life."

Life

"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."

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"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me."

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"I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things."

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"But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do."

"Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future."

"Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held against themselves, they seem so terribly brief. Therefore, we'd be wise to celebrate life before minutes are all that's left."

"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."

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"There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was."

"It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance."

"I never worked in an office in my life."

"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."

"I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough."

"But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection."

"In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you."

"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me."

"I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things."

"But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it."