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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

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

"We were the only two people in the entire airport who lost total track of time, for we were consumed by space-time at that present moment. Time was irrelevant to our existence, for we didn't want to exist outside the tight and glorious knots of each other's arms. Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present."
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"A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing."


"Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you."


"In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death."


"Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement."


"The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it."


"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."


"Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good."
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