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• My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Stars, Two, Wish

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 25, 2010

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• There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'

  Charles Schumer

  Friday, Morning, Monday

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• Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

  Jane Birkin

  Mother, Mean, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Death can come at any moment. You could die this afternoon; you could die tomorrow morning; you could die on your way to work; you could die in your sleep. Most of us try to avoid the sense that death can come at any time, but its timing is unknown to us. Can we live each day as if it were our last? Can we relate to one another as if there were no tomorrow?

  Joan Halifax

  Morning, Sleep, Trying

  Joan Halifax (2009). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Men, Evening, Becoming

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• Being an entrepreneur, everyone needs to hear a personal anecdote from you once in a while or see you go out of your way to make someone's day. Maybe it's time for a party at your house to unwind, or an afternoon off with the team to attend the ball game.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Party, Games

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons.

  Joleon Lescott

  Hands, Footballer, Spares

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that is good, clean and fair. It's unfair to charge for food in schools, especially to charge for food that is making children sick.

  Alice Waters

  Children, Believe, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

  Jean Giraudoux

  World, Sensible, Courses

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• ...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.

  Stephen King

  Friday, Teaching, Writing

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• I don't believe in the very concept of "first thing in the morning." I'm a "third thing in the afternoon" fellow.

  James Lileks

  Morning, Believe, Firsts

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• Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day's so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls.

  Sid Fleischman

  Wall, Reality, Sky

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• Some people complain that they will not live forever, but cannot think of things to do on a wet Sunday afternoon.

  Keith Ward

  Sunday, Thinking, People

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• The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

  John F. Kennedy

  Time, Science, Maturity

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• I don’t feel pressure. I don’t give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, July 9, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup.

  Andrea Pirlo

  Sleep, Sunday, July

  "I Think Therefore I Play". Book by Andrea Pirlo and Alessandro Alciato, April 15, 2014.

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• There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

  H. G. Wells

  Funny, Time, Morning

  "My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, 1964.

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• A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

  Stephen Leacock

  Retirement, Autumn, Blow

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• If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now.

  Chan Khong

  Peace, Morning, Ubuntu

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• I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Summer, New York, Fall

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.100, Cambridge University Press

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• The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Beloved Wife, Tea

  "South Africa's Tutu announces retirement". www.cnn.com. July 22, 2010.

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• I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

  Sydney Pollack

  Art, Growing Up, Thinking

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• On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

  Maya Angelou

  Real, Garden, Play

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• What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Years, Next, Great Gatsby American Dream

  The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)

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• If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Humorous, Swimming

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Ego, Dawn

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