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• I would ... go up to the mailbox and sit in the grass, waiting. ... Till it came to me one day there were women doing this with their lives, all over. There were women just waiting and waiting by mailboxes for one letter or another. I imagined me making this journey day after day and year after year, and my hair starting to go gray, and I thought, I was never made to go on like that. ... If there were woman all through life waiting, and women busy and not waiting, I knew which I had to be.

  Alice Munro

  Journey, Hair, Years

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• We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.

  Maureen Duffy

  Morning, Knowledge, Humility

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• The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

  Derek Jarman

  Queens, Cities, Good Man

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.

  Faye Dunaway

  Thinking, Energy, Actors

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• Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Time, Twenties, Four

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

  Sebastian Coe

  Thinking, Alternatives, Workaholic

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• Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain depraved. They all write letters. It's their safe outlet, you see. They can be as interfering, as long-winded, as obscene, as pompous, as one-idea'd, as they like on paper, and no one can kick them for it. So they write. My God, how they write!

  Josephine Tey

  Writing, Odds, Ideas

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• In that intensely busy time of children and work, soup became my stalwart friend and I learned its true value. Anyone who's been there knows. You're busy, too much to do, time vanishes, the kids are relentless, and everyone is hungry all the time. Something as comforting, delicious, and practical as soup is like gold.

  Anna Thomas

  Children, Food, Kids

  Anna Thomas (2009). “Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes from the Author of The Vegetarian Epicure”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.

  Kylie Tennant

  Men, Cities, Community

  Kylie Tennant (1968). “Lost Haven”

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• Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Quilts, Couple, Believe

  Abigail Scott Duniway (2000). “"Yours for Liberty": Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway's Suffrage Newspaper”

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• I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.

  Gertrude Bell

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

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• Great peace is found in little busy-ness.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Littles, Found

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• Don't get so busy that you don't have time to meditate. Take the time.... Christ may be nearer than we have knowledge. 'I am in your midst, but you do not see me.'

  Harold B. Lee

  May, Christ, Midst

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• The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell off the nation's forests for a song, give away its national parks, and trash its wilderness preserves; there is a connection between the two impulses.

  Paul Gruchow

  Song, Two, People

  Paul Gruchow (1997). “Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild”

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• I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Bored, Needs, Juggling

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• 'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Men, Talking

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• I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.

  Ringo Starr

  Hate, Heart, Track

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Twenties, Kind

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Sorry, Hippie, Feelings

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Wholesome food is wholesome food anywhere. I may not like something but, generally speaking, if it's a busy, street food stall serving mystery meat in India, they're in the business of serving their neighbors. They're not targeted toward a transient crowd of tourists that won't be around tomorrow. They're not in the business of poisoning their neighbors.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Meat, Tourists, India

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• My day is pretty much busy. I do 15 million things in the course of a day. I'm holding up I think. I don't know how I look, but I think I'm holding up.

  Ralph Lauren

  Thinking, Looks, Millions

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• The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

  Elizabeth Charles

  Religious, Devil, Saint

  Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.32

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• The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

  B. C. Forbes

  Men, He Man, Too Busy

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• A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage, affectionate and aloof, greedy and finicky, sound asleep in one instant, and awake and stalking in the next. A cat is a limp puddle of softness, surrounding a steel-hard and ever-alert set of muscles. ... A cat has the face of a pansy flower, and is just as velvety. A cat holds infinity in her eyes, and your heart in her front paws.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Flower, Heart, Cat

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• Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.

  Bernie Siegel

  Jobs, Taken, Doctors

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