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John Cheever

"Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time."

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"Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time."

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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

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"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

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

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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."

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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."

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

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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."

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"If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything."

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"For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair."

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

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"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."
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