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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in,…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.
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To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you…
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I just need time to catch my breath before you take it away again.
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I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come.…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what…
— Duke Ellington
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I don't need time, I need a deadline.
— Duke Ellington
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I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!
— Duke Ellington
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The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The…
— Hedy Lamarr
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European government is a clear expression I still use, you need time, but step by step, as in the Austrian case, the…
— Romano Prodi
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Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.
— Jo Ann Davis
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A lot of people tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I…
— Enya
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