"Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book."

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"Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book."

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

Woody Allen, American Director

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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."

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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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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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"If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life."

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"By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets."

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"If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke."

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"Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes."

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"HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned."

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"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."

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"Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions."

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"I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is."

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"It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can."

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