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Moments Quotes by John Updike
- "Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by…
- As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a…
- The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth,…
- We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
- What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?
- There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they…
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- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
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- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba