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"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."

"Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us."

"Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!"
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"To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding."


"The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles."


"The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable."


"Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words."


"It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave."


"There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form."


"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."
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