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Robert Grudin has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.
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Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely.…
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The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication,…
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True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education,…
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Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static…
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That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses,…
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Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.
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At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains;…
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Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.
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We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie…
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If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look…
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The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.
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February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.
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We are wistful about the golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect…
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So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really…
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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years…
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All green and fair the summer lies, Just budded from the bud of spring, With tender blue of wistful skies, And winds…
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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the…
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I just sit here and tell the story as though I can't help it. There's always something in the day that reminds…
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We are pretty sure that we and our pets share the same reality, until one day we come home to find that…
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I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an…
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