Tim Tharp Quotes

• Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

  Tim Tharp

  Life, Time, Drinking

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• The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it

  Tim Tharp

  World, Way, Lasts

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.119, Scholastic UK

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• It's superb to be out in the early, early morning before the sun comes up. There's this sense of being super-alive. You're in on a secret that all the dull, sleeping people don't know about. Unlike them, you're alert and aware of existing right here in this precise moment between what happened and what's going to happen.

  Tim Tharp

  Morning, Sleep, People

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• That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

  Tim Tharp

  Sound, Legends, Greater

  Tim Tharp (2008). “Knights of the Hill Country”, p.182, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You're nothing but a product. And what's this product called? Emptiness, dude, that's what it's called. And for the rest of your life, they sell you over and over, right to the end when they package you one last time and plant you in the ground.

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  Lasts, Rest Of Your Life, Emptiness

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.83, Scholastic UK

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• Besides, I’m not looking to get saved. I’m only going with her because it’s what you do when you’re in a relationship. You know? You slide into the third pew from the front and sit there thinking about how desperate all these people are to feel like something loves them. They’ll believe all kinds of hocus-pocus. But your girlfriend likes it, and you like her, so you do it. It’s called compromise. The only way you’re going to get something to last in this world is to work at it.

  Tim Tharp

  Girlfriend, Believe, Thinking

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• Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

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  Dream, Real, Ocean

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.141, Scholastic UK

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• It's fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. I'm going to start making them count.

  Tim Tharp

  Tomorrow, Fine, Live In The Now

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• Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

  Tim Tharp

  Dream, Ocean, Hanging On

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.141, Scholastic UK

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• To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

  Tim Tharp

  Matter, Tomorrow, Problem

  Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.232, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

  Tim Tharp

  Training, Whole, Addict

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.82, Scholastic UK

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• Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.

  Tim Tharp

  Country, Childhood, Fantastic

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.81, Scholastic UK

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• You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

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  Thinking, Slips, I Can

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.32, Scholastic UK

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• This stage in the life of the buzz is truly fabulous. It’s not even a buzz anymore. It’s a roar. The world opens up and everything’s yours right here, right now. You’ve probably heard the expression—All good things must come to an end. Well, this stage in the life of the buzz never heard anything close to that. This stage says, 'I will never end. I am indestructible. I will last fabulously forever.' And, of course, you believe it. To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

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  Believe, Expression, Forever

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• Boredom is only for boring people with no imagination.

  Tim Tharp

  People, Imagination, Boredom

  Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.

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  Mean, Color, Textbooks

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• We're not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We're not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We're the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we've crowded in here to hide from the future and the past. We know what's up - the future looms straight ahead like a black wrought-iron gate and the past is charging after us like a badass Doberman, only this one doesn't have any letup in him.

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  Badass, Growing Up, Kids

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• That's how our system works. It's a giant con game. One thing gets old, then you have to buy the next thing that gets old, then the next thing. Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

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  Games, Training, Giants

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.82, Scholastic UK

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• Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now

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  Goodbye, Littles, Disappear

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.230, Scholastic UK

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• I like to think there's more to a person than just one thing.

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  Thinking, Persons, Just One

  "Fictional character: Aimee". "The Spectacular Now", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• That's how it is online—there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different sites floating in a void.

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  Mind, Different, Floating

  Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.119, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

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  Want, Miraculous, Stills

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.82, Scholastic UK

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• Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren’t really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That’s how I felt.

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  Scratches, Wave, Felt

  Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.128, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

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  Too Late, Daydreaming, Should

  Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.186, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.

  Tim Tharp

  Book, Hey, Littles

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.109, Scholastic UK

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