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- I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter…
- We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present,…
- For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.
- Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.
- I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.
- I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time…
- In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward…
- I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the…
- I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
- We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed…
- I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told…
- I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked…
- Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
- Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked,…
- ...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from…
- It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone…
- Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able…
- Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
- Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest…
- I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated
- Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as…
- Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of…
- I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
- I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It felt…
- Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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