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Philip Greenspun

"If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web."

Philip Greenspun, American Scientist
Time, Ideas, Writer
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"If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web."

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"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

Ovid, Roman Poet
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"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

Marilyn Monroe, American Actress
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"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet
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"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher
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"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

Walt Whitman, American Poet
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"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

Stephen King, American Author
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"Time is a created thing. To say, "I don't have time" is like saying "I don't want to."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher
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"Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist
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"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist
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