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• Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Patriotic, Men

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.121, Univ of California Press

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• What shall I do with all the days and hours
  That must be counted ere I see thy face?
  How shall I charm the interval that lowers
  Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

  Fanny Kemble

  I Miss You, Missing You, Letting Go

  Fanny Kemble (1844). “Poems”, p.129

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• Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.

  Herbert Read

  Real, Writing, Mean

  "English Prose Style". Book by Herbert Read, 1928.

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• The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

  John C. Calhoun

  Errors, Confusion, Transition

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1854). “A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT AND A DISCOURSE ON THE CONSTITUTIONA ND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES”, p.90

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• Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Giving, Meals

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in God's gardens they keep still, like many, many intervals in his might and melody. Only when they spread their wings are they wakers of a wind: as if God with his broad sculptor- hands leafed through the pages in the dark book of the beginning.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dream, Book, Tired

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Book of Images”, p.31, North Point Press

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• We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

  Lyall Watson

  Silence, Trying, Succeed

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• I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

  Anton Chekhov

  Horse, Ballet, Ballerina

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• And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer - by demonstration - would take care of that, too. For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program. The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done. And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light...

  Isaac Asimov

  Men, Light, Giving

  "The Last Question". Science Fiction Quarterly, archive.org. November 1956.

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• Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days. It is silent and elusive, refusing to be damned and dripped out day by day; it swirls through the mind while an entire lifetime can ride like foam on the deceptive, transparent waves and get sprayed onto the conciousness at ragged, unexpected intervals.

  Gloria Naylor

  Hurt, Memories, Glasses

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.35, Penguin

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• The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

  Michel Foucault

  Book, Reality, Imagination

  Michel Foucault (1998). “Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology”, p.106, The New Press

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• The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered Abdullah, who had been waiting for us on the verandah and who had, I supposed, been alarmed by Emerson's shouts and hurried to discover what disaster had prompted them. The cat got entangled in Abdullah's skirts and a brief interval of staggering (by Abdullah), scratching (by Horus) and swearing (by both parties) ensued before Horus freed himself and departed.

  Barbara Mertz

  Party, Cat, Doors

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• Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

  John Knowles

  Mean, Years, Important

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dark, Ends, Abyss

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

  Helen McCrory

  Lying, Sleep, Feel Better

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Funny, Civilization, America

  Attributed in Saturday Review of Literature, 1 Dec. 1945

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• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

  Don Marquis

  Happiness, Happy, Inner Peace

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• We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Baby, Long, Eras

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Plays Volume One”, p.278, Random House

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• My 'go to' workout is called the Asylum from Beach Body. It's intense training with lots of intervals, core work. It's hard! I travel a lot, so I can take it on the road with me and do it in a hotel room.

  Apolo Ohno

  Beach, Workout, Intense Training

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• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)

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• A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

  Sivananda

  Love, Peace, Buddhist

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• I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

  William Allen White

  Morning, Bored, Strange

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• Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Fall, Tree, Ancient

  George Edward Woodberry (1916). “Shakespeare: An Address”

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• The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Order, Break Out

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

  Daniel Handler

  Teacher, School, Bells

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