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William Dean Howells

"We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these."

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"We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these."

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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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"No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces."

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

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"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

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"Today is a gift. Today is all I have. I be fully awake in today."

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

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"The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number."
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"A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it."
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"Primitive societies without religion have never been found."
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"In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere."
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"Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week."
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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
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"Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart."
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