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• Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Too Late, Realizing, Moments

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• Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, America, Suffering

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.1145, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. "But you're..." "Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Thinking, Car, Mind

  Scott Westerfeld (2013). “Uglies Quartet: Uglies; Pretties; Specials; Extras”, p.533, Simon and Schuster

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• The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Bird, Worms, Early Bird

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• Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.

  Robert Harris

  Writing, Years, Hot

  "The Ghost". Book by Robert Harris, September 26, 2007.

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• Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Tired, Heart, Too Late

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.838, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Mean, Winning

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• We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• Jace's eyes sparkled, but he said calmly, "Not at all. the Silent Brothers can help her retrieve her memories." "You hate the Silent Brothers," protested Isabelle. "I don't hate them," said Jace candidly."I'm afraid of them. It's not the same thing." "I thought you said they were libarians," said Clary. "They are librarians." Simon whistled. "Those must be some killer late fees.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Memories, Hate

  Cassandra Clare (2007). “City of Bones”, Margaret K. McElderry Books

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• We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late

  Dave Eggers

  Car, Asking, Done

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.57, Vintage

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• Think of the sound you make when you let go after holding your breath for a very, very long time. Think of the gladdest sound you know: the sound of dawn on the first day of spring break, the sound of a bottle of Coke opening, the sound of a crowd cheering in your ears because you're coming down to the last part of a race--and you're ahead. Think of the sound of water over stones in a cold stream, and the sound of wind through green trees on a late May afternoon in Central Park. Think of the sound of a bus coming into the station carrying someone you love. Then put all those together.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Letting Go, Cheer, Spring

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

  Roland Barthes

  Games, Play, Waiting

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• Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.

  Jim Harrison

  Government, Years, People

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Legends of the Fall”, p.109, Atlantic Books

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• She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.

  Lisa McMann

  School, Dwarves, Giving

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!

  Patrick Henry

  Strong, War, Boston

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

  William Shakespeare

  Known

  "Romeo and Juliet".

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• Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fall, Found You, Perfect

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

  Milan Kundera

  Moving, Home, Paris

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• It's never too late to fix things with people you love, Massie. Kendra said. That's true. William agreed.

  Lisi Harrison

  People, Too Late, Said

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• Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a five I'll lay down the tracks Sandbag and hide January has April's showers And two and two always makes a five It's the devil's way now There is no way out You can SCREAM and you can shout It is too late now Because... You have not been Payin' attention! Payin' attention! Payin' attention! Payin' attention! You have not been paying attention!

  Thom Yorke

  Home, Two, Rights

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• Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.

  Jean Webster

  Writing, Yellow, White

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• If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Morning, Creating

  Deepak Chopra (2001). “Perfect health: the complete mind body guide”, Harmony

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• So we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart still be as loving, And the moon still be as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul outwears the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Moon, Night

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.533, Delphi Classics

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• Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come back we will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand things, each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.

  Galway Kinnell

  Sleep, Hair, Dying

  Galway Kinnell, “Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair In The Moonlight”

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• What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?" "Because it all led me here to you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Lonely, Hate, Night

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.415, Macmillan

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