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"There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

"The value of time is immeasurable."

"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."

"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."

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

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."
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"Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers."


"But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all."


"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."


"The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs."


"But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away."


"I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class."


"German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case."
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