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"We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes."
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"Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around."

"We seem to somewhat be behind an eight ball, and what I mean by that is we're constantly waiting for a call from Neil as to whether he wants to do CSNY."

"But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole."

"I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday."

"I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed."

"So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn't reinfected her, I would have lost her in the hospital bed. And now Cole's wolf tozin pumps through her veins, and I lose her to the woods, like I lose everything I love.So here is me, and I am a boy watched--by her parents' suspicious eyes, since they cannot prove that I kidnapped Grace but believe nonetheless--and I am a boy watchful--because Tom Culpeper's bitterness is growing palpable in this tiny town and I will NOT bury Grace's body--and I am a boy waiting--for the heat and the fruitfulness of summer, waiting to see who will walk out of those woods for me. Waiting for my lovely summer girl."

"I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one."
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"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."

"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."

"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."

"I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god. To speak is to fall into tautology."

"I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is."
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