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Time Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that…
- On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics…
- Don't waste your time on life.
- I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and…
- But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in…
- And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time,…
- I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different…
- Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.
- Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.
- I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from…
- But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival…
- The time has to be right and the heart willing.
- They're just memories now. Time to write them off.
- My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked.…
- It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.
- We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What…
- At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal,…
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- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Never regret your past, the only thing you should regret is the time you've wasted with the wrong people. — Nishan Panwar
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams