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> [It was Adam, but he was too late. He couldn’t love me anymore. He would be so angry with me. I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-briggs/it-was-adam-but-he-was-too-late-he-couldn-t-love-me-anymore-he-would/)

[Patricia Briggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-briggs/)

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> [You asked Marco Rubio if it was too little too late. I think there's a little bit of too much too late,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernie-sanders/you-asked-marco-rubio-if-it-was-too-little-too-late-i-think-there-s-a/)

[Bernie Sanders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernie-sanders/)

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> [“If you investigate companies that have failed, you will find that many employees knew about the fatal issues long before those issues…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-horowitz/if-you-investigate-companies-that-have-failed-you-will-find-that-many/)

[Ben Horowitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-horowitz/)

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> [“So many are alive who don’t seem to care. Casual, easy, they move in the world as though untouched. But you take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/so-many-are-alive-who-don-t-seem-to-care-casual-easy-they-move-in-the/)

[Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/)

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> [Whenever I wanted to talk to anyone on the East Coast, it was way too late. Living three hours behind was one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mindy-kaling/whenever-i-wanted-to-talk-to-anyone-on-the-east-coast-it-was-way-too/)

[Mindy Kaling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mindy-kaling/)

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> [“Cooking without remuneration" and "slaving over a hot stove" are activities separated mostly by a frame of mind. The distinction is crucial.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/cooking-without-remuneration-and-slaving-over-a-hot-stove-are/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

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> [When the child is five years, he thinks his father is the smart and powerful man in the world.At the age of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mak-786/when-the-child-is-five-years-he-thinks-his-father-is-the-smart-and-2/)

[Mak\_786](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mak-786/)

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> [“I shook my head, folding my arms around my waist. He was wrong; he was the one offering fairy dust, Peter Pan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joss-stirling/i-shook-my-head-folding-my-arms-around-my-waist-he-was-wrong-he-was/)

[Joss Stirling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joss-stirling/)

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> [I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-eastwood/i-think-being-able-to-age-gracefully-is-a-very-important-talent-it-is-2/)

[Clint Eastwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-eastwood/)

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> [“Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/indeed-the-truth-that-many-people-never-understand-until-it-is-too/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

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> [“So you chose not to be part of the bands of children who group together for the sole purpose of excluding others,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-scott-card/so-you-chose-not-to-be-part-of-the-bands-of-children-who-group/)

[Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-scott-card/)

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> [“We agree that it is too late to think of visiting Cousin Ellen today – in fact if we do not hurry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-e-stevenson/we-agree-that-it-is-too-late-to-think-of-visiting-cousin-ellen-today/)

[D.E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-e-stevenson/)

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> [Life is not about looking back and wishing that today is the same with the past. Life is about moving on, accepting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/life-is-not-about-looking-back-and-wishing-that-today-is-the-same/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Paul was coursing at fantastic speed towards the area where the little twin stars Rhium and Antirhium revolved around each other. “Hurry,”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-a-lafferty/paul-was-coursing-at-fantastic-speed-towards-the-area-where-the/)

[R.A. Lafferty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-a-lafferty/)

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> [“Upon returning from the store, he would put the meat into the freezer, hide his favorite fruits in the bathroom cabinet, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-sedaris/upon-returning-from-the-store-he-would-put-the-meat-into-the-freezer/)

[David Sedaris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-sedaris/)

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> [“True love cannot be denied,” Layla said. “You know that yourself, Betsy, given your sad experiences. Life is fleeting and one should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eloisa-james/true-love-cannot-be-denied-layla-said-you-know-that-yourself-betsy/)

[Eloisa James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eloisa-james/)

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> [“Straight up, Mels, the only reason I haven't completely jumped you is because I can't. I...can't." He threw up his free hand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-r-ward/straight-up-mels-the-only-reason-i-haven-t-completely-jumped-you-is/)

[J.R. Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-r-ward/)

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> [“My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/my-point-is-not-that-we-must-in-telling-history-accuse-judge-condemn/)

[Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/)

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> [We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-r-murrow/we-have-currently-a-built-in-allergy-to-unpleasant-or-disturbing/)

[Edward R. Murrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-r-murrow/)

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> [“All I have to do is shoot! In my excitement, I throw the ball down with more force than ever, feeling bad-ass.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jody-gehrman/all-i-have-to-do-is-shoot-in-my-excitement-i-throw-the-ball-down-with/)

[Jody Gehrman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jody-gehrman/)

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> [I don't want to be too early, but I don't want to be too late. We have a lot of things in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/themonsterace/i-don-t-want-to-be-too-early-but-i-don-t-want-to-be-too-late-we-have/)

[TheMonsterAce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/themonsterace/)

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> [“When she told him about her cemetery walks, he gave a shiver of disgust and called cemeteries bone and stone dumps. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/when-she-told-him-about-her-cemetery-walks-he-gave-a-shiver-of/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [“Sometimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person’s home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-sheffield/sometimes-you-lie-in-a-strange-room-in-a-strange-person-s-home-and/)

[Rob Sheffield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-sheffield/)

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> [“People do not knowingly join “cults” that will ultimately destroy and kill them. People join self-help groups, churches, political movements, college campus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-layton/people-do-not-knowingly-join-cults-that-will-ultimately-destroy-and/)

[Deborah Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-layton/)

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> [I'm often quite gloomy about the prospects for the human future. But, although I have no competence to intervene directly in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-kitcher/i-m-often-quite-gloomy-about-the-prospects-for-the-human-future-but/)

[Philip Kitcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-kitcher/)

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> [“Farther from the sun, a father and son. The soft moon chasing after, the sun running away; a lunacy of circles that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-liccione/farther-from-the-sun-a-father-and-son-the-soft-moon-chasing-after-the/)

[Anthony Liccione](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-liccione/)

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> [“You were too lazy to learn to dance until it was almost too late, and in the same way you were too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/you-were-too-lazy-to-learn-to-dance-until-it-was-almost-too-late-and/)

[Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/)

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> [All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/all-that-is-harmony-for-you-my-universe-is-in-harmony-with-me-as-well/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

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> [“The two men's eyes widened when they saw me charging toward them. One of them dropped his hold on Grey, letting him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirby-howell/the-two-men-s-eyes-widened-when-they-saw-me-charging-toward-them-one/)

[Kirby Howell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirby-howell/)

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> [“if only you could see yourself now, you’re settling back into a quiet autumn and you’ve missed the smell of must, rain,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brandon-speck/if-only-you-could-see-yourself-now-you-re-settling-back-into-a-quiet/)

[Brandon Speck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brandon-speck/)

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> [...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/by-the-time-we-understand-the-pattern-we-are-in-the-definition-we-are/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

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> [Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/writing-is-not-like-dancing-or-modeling-it-s-not-something-where-if/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-hoban/too-lateness-i-realized-has-nothing-to-do-with-age-it-s-a-relation-of/)

[Russell Hoban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-hoban/)

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> [He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/he-that-condemns-himself-to-compose-on-a-stated-day-will-often-bring/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-nighy/one-of-my-great-regrets-and-i-don-t-have-many-is-that-i-spent-too/)

[Bill Nighy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-nighy/)

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> [“I am what I am, and there's much about me that won't be changed with any amount of wishing or wanting. I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seanan-mcguire/i-am-what-i-am-and-there-s-much-about-me-that-won-t-be-changed-with/)

[Seanan McGuire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seanan-mcguire/)

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> [“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do”; “Accept the past as past without denying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/accept-what-you-are-able-to-do-and-what-you-are-not-able-to-do-accept/)

[Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/)

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> [“My family is a classic American-dream story. My great-grandparents fled Russia to avoid being murdered for their religion. Just two generations later,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-litt/my-family-is-a-classic-american-dream-story-my-great-grandparents/)

[David Litt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-litt/)

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> [“I want to move my hands, but they’re fused to his rib cage. I feel his lung span, his heartbeat, his very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-d-evans/i-want-to-move-my-hands-but-they-re-fused-to-his-rib-cage-i-feel-his/)

[A.D. Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-d-evans/)

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> [“Ronan!” Gansey shouted, too late. Declan went down, but before Gansey even had time to form a plan of action, he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-stiefvater/ronan-gansey-shouted-too-late-declan-went-down-but-before-gansey-even/)

[Maggie Stiefvater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-stiefvater/)

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                        "text": "You asked Marco Rubio if it was too little too late. I think there's a little bit of too much too late, which is, he is just getting down in the muck with Donald Trump. And when you get down in the muck, you get up with muck on you.",
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                        "text": "“So many are alive who don’t seem to care. Casual, easy, they move in the world as though untouched. But you take pleasure in the faces of those who know they thirst. You cherish those who grip you for survival. You are not dead yet, it’s not too late to open your depths by plunging into them and drink in the life that reveals itself quietly there.”",
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                        "text": "Whenever I wanted to talk to anyone on the East Coast, it was way too late. Living three hours behind was one thing I complained about. The other thing, of course, was just that there were no seasons. I would complain about that too. Just tons of complaining, man, early on. I can't believe I'm still friends with the people I was friends with when I first started in LA.",
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                        "text": "“Cooking without remuneration\" and \"slaving over a hot stove\" are activities separated mostly by a frame of mind. The distinction is crucial. Career women in many countries still routinely apply passion to their cooking, heading straight from work to the market to search out the freshest ingredients, feeding their loved ones with aplomb. [...] Full-time homemaking may not be an option for those of us delivered without trust funds into the modern era. But approaching mealtimes as a creative opportunity, rather than a chore, is an option. Required participation from spouse and kids is an element of the equation. An obsession with spotless collars, ironing, and kitchen floors you can eat off of---not so much. We've earned the right to forget about stupefying household busywork. But kitchens where food is cooked and eaten, those were really a good idea. We threw that baby out with the bathwater. It may be advisable to grab her by her slippery foot and haul her back in here before it's too late.”",
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                        "text": "When the child is five years, he thinks his father is the smart and powerful man in the world.At the age of 10 years, they have knowledge of everything and are so clever_Her parents first realized thather friends are more intelligent than his father. After 20 years of age to run with new finds that his father needs a little more knowledge_Because everything has falleninto a habit of removing the defect. The ages 35-40 and their children seem to be thinking the opposite way, then returns. It seems that some things they can be consulted_Stage 50 of the 15-year Umrmen Prakr made her perceptions were wrong, father should not do anything without the advice. As long as your children grow up_His father seem to behave similarly defiant. If you wantto return to their father, but by then is too late.",
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                        "text": "“I shook my head, folding my arms around my waist. He was wrong; he was the one offering fairy dust, Peter Pan offering to carry me off to the Neverland of soulfinders and happily ever after. But he was too late. Last night i had to grew up and I now knew that such dreams did not exist; real life was more like living with Captain Hook's mercenary pirates than playing happy families in a treehouse”",
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                        "text": "I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.",
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                        "text": "“Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers the most: and his suffering comes to him from things so little and so trivial that one can say that it is no longer objective at all. It is his own existence, his own being, that is at once the subject and the source of his pain, and his very existence and consciousness is his greatest torture.”",
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                        "text": "“So you chose not to be part of the bands of children who group together for the sole purpose of excluding others, and people look at you and say, poor girl, she’s so isolated, but you know a secret, you know who you really are. You are the one human being who is capable of understanding the alien mind, because you are the alien mind; you know what it is to be unhuman because there’s never been any human group that gave you credentials as a bona fide homo sapien # [He] wondered if it was already too late to teach her how to be a human”",
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                        "text": "“We agree that it is too late to think of visiting Cousin Ellen today – in fact if we do not hurry home we shall be late for dinner (an eventuality which cannot be contemplated with equanimity). As we near home and the hour advances, I beseech Tim to hurry. He replies indignantly that he will do nothing of the kind; why should we race home, jeopardising our very lives, for the sake of a cantankerous old woman (only he does not say ‘woman’)? Do I realise – he says bitterly – that I am becoming absolutely under the creature’s thumb? Reply that I do realise it. He then says why on earth don’t I get rid of the brute? Reply that I am too frightened of her. Tim says the thing is absolutely preposterous, Cook must go. Fortunately, we arrive just in time for dinner, and it is such an excellent meal that Tim’s heart is softened, and he says we had better give her another chance, but I must take a strong line with her and stand no nonsense. Make no reply to this command as I feel in my bones I shall not be able to comply with it.”",
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                        "text": "Life is not about looking back and wishing that today is the same with the past. Life is about moving on, accepting changes and looking forward to what makes you stronger and more complete because it's never been too late to have a life and never too late to change one.",
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                        "text": "“Upon returning from the store, he would put the meat into the freezer, hide his favorite fruits in the bathroom cabinet, and stuff everything else into the crisper. It was, of course, too late for crisp, but he took the refrigerator drawer at its word, insisting that it was capable of reviving the dead and returning them, hale and vibrant, to the prime of their lives. Subjected to a few days in his beloved crisper, a carrot would become as pale and soft as a flaccid penis. \"Hey,\" he'd say. \"Somebody ought to eat this before it goes bad.\" He'd take a bite, and the rest of us would wince at the unnatural silence. Too weak to resist, the carrot quietly surrendered to the force of his jaws. An overcooked hot dog would have made more noise. Wiping the juice from his lips, he would insist that this was the best carrot he'd ever eaten. \"You guys don't know what you're missing.\" I think we had a pretty good idea.”",
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                        "text": "“Straight up, Mels, the only reason I haven't completely jumped you is because I can't. I...can't.\" He threw up his free hand and let it fall back down to the bedspread. \"And you know what sucks? I've been with a lot of women.\" Annnnnnnd that made her chest hurt. \"Before you were injured...\" He nodded. \"Of all the things for my memory to come back on, right?\" Cue another kick in the solar plexus. \"You remember them?\" \"I hate it– because I would trade every single random fuck for just one night with you.\" He brushed her face with his fingertips and then brought his thumb to her mouth. With the same gentle pressure he'd put against her wrist, he caressed her lower lip. \"I'd give up every one of them. Matter of fact, it feels like...a curse to have finally found someone like you, only to have it be too late. And that's where it's at. It's too late for me, Mels, and that's how you're killing me. When I look at you, when I see you move, when you smile or take a deep breath, I just... I die a little. Every time.”",
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                        "text": "“My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that; it would be a useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save socialism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all) - that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth. We have learned to give them exactly the same proportion of attention that teachers and writers often give them in the most respectable classrooms and textbooks. This learned sense of moral proportion, coming from the apparent objectivity of the scholar, is accepted more easily than when it comes from politicians at press conferences. It is therefore more deadly. ”",
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                        "text": "We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.",
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                        "text": "“All I have to do is shoot! In my excitement, I throw the ball down with more force than ever, feeling bad-ass. It ricochets off the floor at an angle and slams right into my crotch. All around me, the room goes, “Ohhhh!” I look up. Every face is staring at me, contorted into winces. Right. Ball in crotch equals excruciating pain. I’m such an idiot! Too late, I double over in pain. “Ouch!” I yell. I sneak a glance around. Nobody looks convinced, so I add, “My balls!”",
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                        "text": "I don't want to be too early, but I don't want to be too late. We have a lot of things in common, but I feel like we should get to know each other a bit more. I always wanted to tell you how I felt, but you were already taken, now that you aren't, I should tell you how I feel before anyone else can take you away. I just want to be what the other guy couldn't, I just want to be the guy that will be there for you. I may not be the best in the world, but I want to be the best for you, all I ask is a chance, a chance is all I need. The only reason I ask right now is because I don't want to be too early but I don't want to be too late.",
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                        "text": "“When she told him about her cemetery walks, he gave a shiver of disgust and called cemeteries bone and stone dumps. A gulf of misunderstanding had immediately opened up between them. Not until that day at the Montparnasse Cemetery did she see what he meant. She was sorry to have been so impatient with him. Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.”",
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                        "text": "“Sometimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person’s home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching something hot, something that warps you in drastic and probably irreversible ways you won’t get to take stock of until it’s too late. I felt myself just melting in Renée’s room that night.”",
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                        "text": "“People do not knowingly join “cults” that will ultimately destroy and kill them. People join self-help groups, churches, political movements, college campus dinner socials, and the like, in an effort to be a part of something larger than themselves. It is mostly the innocent and naive who find themselves entrapped. In their openhearted endeavor to find meaning in their lives, they walk blindly into the promise of ultimate answers and a higher purpose. It is usually only gradually that a group turns into or reveals itself as a cult, becomes malignant, but by then it is often too late.”",
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                        "text": "I'm often quite gloomy about the prospects for the human future. But, although I have no competence to intervene directly in a political movement, I hope that what I write may, in combination with the suggestions of others, cause a shift in perspective that will inspire a world-wide movement to accept the only solution to climate change. And before it's too late.",
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                        "text": "“Farther from the sun, a father and son. The soft moon chasing after, the sun running away; a lunacy of circles that separates the darkest of space. Stars hanging like a collage of reflecting mirrors, pieces that once radiated beauty. If by chance, the moon changes to blood and the sky spills its red, the willing time, will tell in time, if when all is too late.”",
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                        "text": "“You were too lazy to learn to dance until it was almost too late, and in the same way you were too lazy to learn to love. As for ideal and tragic love, that I don't doubt you can do marvellously- and all honour to you. Now you will learn to love a little in an ordinary human way.”",
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                        "text": "All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.",
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                        "text": "“The two men's eyes widened when they saw me charging toward them. One of them dropped his hold on Grey, letting him sway dangerously over the edge. Both men reached for their guns, but it was too late. I was nearly on them. Fortiter. I slammed into Grey, my momentum carrying us over the low edge. I briefly heard Karl shout, before the wind filled my ears. We were falling fast, and the pavement rushed up at us at an alarming speed.”",
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                        "text": "“if only you could see yourself now, you’re settling back into a quiet autumn and you’ve missed the smell of must, rain, and tobacco kissed into the corners and couches of the same house you share with seven others. you miss the girl who used to sleep on your couch who had the skull of the bird she is named after tattooed across her arm. you are glad you stopped drinking. it’s 2am and you’re staying up far too late. you have an interview for a job in the morning that you will come to hate in 2 months. you’re not in love the way you expected. some memories turned into broken drawers that you chose to store all your knives in, every time you open them, they always come spilling out towards you. you miss having sex with people you also love. precariousness is now the pillow you sleep upon, and you no longer have such structured repeating romance. you no longer have such a structured repeating life, and I know it killed you that you knew it wasn’t forever. i know i can’t stop you from panicking, but it will all make sense. you repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat until you realized it was too early to build such a life based on repetition. you’re settling back into a quiet autumn, and you’re stone sober at 4am after a Friday night while the world starts to makes a strange kind of sense, the same way words become meaningless when repeated enough times. all of this is to say, you made it this far, and i’m proud of you.”",
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                        "text": "...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selfness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?",
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                        "text": "Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late. Your writing will only get better as you get older and wiser. If you write something beautiful and important, and the right person somehow discovers it, they will clear room for you on the bookshelves of the world-at any age. At least try.",
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                        "text": "Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now.",
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                        "text": "He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce.",
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                        "text": "One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.",
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                        "text": "“I am what I am, and there's much about me that won't be changed with any amount of wishing or wanting. I'm sorry for that. I'd trade a great deal to share an afternoon in the hay with you, dust in the air and sweat on our skins and neither of us caring. But I'm afraid the experience would drive me mad. I am a creature of sterile environments. It's too late for me to change.”",
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                        "text": "“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do”; “Accept the past as past without denying it or discarding it”; “Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others”; “Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved.” “Dying, is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy.”",
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                        "text": "“My family is a classic American-dream story. My great-grandparents fled Russia to avoid being murdered for their religion. Just two generations later, my parents fled New York City weekends for their country house. I never felt guilty about this. I was raised to believe America rewards hard work. But I was also raised to understand that luck plays a role in even the bootstrappiest success story. The cost of living the dream, I was taught, is the responsibility to expand it for others. It’s a more than fair price. Yet the people running the country didn’t see it that way. With George W. Bush in the White House, millionaires and billionaires were showered with tax cuts. Meanwhile, schools went underfunded. Roads and bridges deteriorated. Household incomes languished. Deficits ballooned. And America went to war. President Bush invaded Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, a campaign which hit a snag when it turned out those weapons didn’t exist. But by then it was too late. We had broken a country and owned the resulting mess. Colin Powell called this “the Pottery Barn rule,” which, admittedly, was cute. Still, it’s hard to imagine a visit to Pottery Barn that costs trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives. Our leaders, in other words, had made bad choices. They would therefore be replaced with better ones. That’s how AP Government told me the system worked. In the real world, however, the invasion of Iraq became an excuse for a dark and antidemocratic turn. Those who questioned the war, the torture of prisoners—or even just the tax cuts—found themselves accused of something barely short of treason. No longer was a distinction made between supporting the president’s policies and America’s troops. As an electoral strategy, this was dangerous and cynical. Also, it worked. So no, I didn’t grow up with a high opinion of politicians. But I did grow up in the kind of environment where people constantly told me I could change the world. In 2004, eager to prove them right, I volunteered for John Kerry’s presidential campaign.”",
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                        "text": "“I want to move my hands, but they’re fused to his rib cage. I feel his lung span, his heartbeat, his very life force wrapped in these flimsy bars of bone. So fragile yet so solid. Like a brick wall with wet mortar. A juxtaposition of hard and soft. He inhales again. “Jayme,” he says my name with a mix of sigh and inquiry. I open my eyes and peer into his flushed face. Roses have bloomed on his ruddy cheeks and he looks as though he’s raced the wind. “Mm?” I reply. My mind is full of babble, I’m so high. “Jayme,” he’s insistent, almost pleading. “What are you?” Instantaneous is the cold alarm that douses the flames still dancing in my heart. I feel the nervousness that whispers through me like a cool breeze in the leaves. “What do you mean?” I ask, the disquiet wringing the strength from my voice. “It doesn’t hurt anymore,” he explains, inhaling deeply. I feel the line of a frown between my brows. Gingerly, I lift the hem of his shirt. And as sure as I am that the world is round and that the sky is, indeed, blue the bruises and welts on his torso have faded to nothingness, the golden tan of his skin is sun-kissed perfection. Panic has me frozen as I stare. “I don’t understand,” I whisper. He looks down at his exposed abdomen. “I think you healed me.” He says it so simply, but my mind takes his words and scatters them like ashes. I feel like I’m waking from a coma and I have amnesia and everyone speaks Chinese. I can’t speak. If I had the strength to, I wouldn’t have the words. I feel the panic flood into me and fear spiked adrenaline courses through me, I shove him. Hard. Eyes wide with shock, he stumbles back a few steps. A few steps is all I need. Fight or flight instinct taking root, I fight to flee. The space between us gives me enough room to slide out from between him and the car. He shouts my name. It’s too late. I’m running a fast as my lithe legs will carry me. My Converse pound the sidewalk and I hear the roar of his engine. It’s still too late. I grew up here and I’m ten blocks from home. No newbie could track me in my own neighborhood. In my town. Not with my determination to put as much distance as I can between me and the boy who scares the shit out of me. Not when I’ve scared the shit out of myself. I run. I run and I don’t stop.”",
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