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Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.

Lauren Oliver

Time, Forever, Watches

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Call me Meier," Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke .

Philip Jose Farmer

Said, Call Me, Jokes

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I know it's hard on her. If I don't tell her she'll kill me." He pauses. "That was supposed to be funny.

Julie Anne Peters

Kill Me, Supposed To Be, Knows

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My fore-parts, as you so ineloquently put it, have names.” I pointed to my right breast. “This is Danger.” Then my left. “And this is Will Robinson. I would appreciate it if you addressed them accordingly.” After a long pause in which he took the time to blink several times, he asked, “You named your breasts?” I turned my back to him with a shrug. “I named my ovaries, too, but they don’t get out as much.

Darynda Jones

Names, Long, Appreciate

Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.117, Macmillan

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If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Honore de Balzac

Heart, Way, Affection

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It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness. -Pema Chodron, from "When Things Fall Apart

Pema Chodron

Fall, Space, Waiting

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God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

James F. Cooper

Years, Tree, May

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She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause.... "That I do still love you.

Richelle Mead

Love You, Long, Dimitri

Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.255, Penguin

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I took a deep breath. "Are you free tonight?" There was a long, pregnant pause. "What about the man in the dream?" he finally asked. "There is no man in the dream.

Richelle Mead

Dream, Men, Long

Richelle Mead (2012). “Succubus Dreams”, p.318, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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Where are you going?" "Nowhere special. I just have some... things to do." "Why did you pause?' "I'm sorry?" "You paused. You have 'some... things to do.' "No reason, I just--" "You're up to something." "No--" "Then why'd you pause?" "Get in the car." She got in. He got in. "Seat belt," he said. Why'd you pause?" His head drooped. "Because I'm up to somthing." "And why can't I come with you?" "Because it's something sneaky." "Do you promise to tell me later?" "I do." "Well all right then." She clicked her seat belt into place. "Let's go.

Derek Landy

Sorry, Car, Promise

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The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different feel to quiet when you're with some-one else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending.

Sarah Dessen

Differences, Broken, Silence

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.70, Penguin

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Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more real... He who sees and hears too much is cursed for a dreamer, a fanatic, or a fool, by the mad mob who, having eyes, see not, ears and hear not, and refuse to understand.

Harold Bell Wright

Real, Eye, Men

Harold Bell Wright (1907). “The Shepherd of the Hills”

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For me, poetry is the colour of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, or the pauses in Pinter's plays - only the pauses, not the words.

Roger Lewis

Eye, Play, Pinter

Evening Standard, October 31, 2011.

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When the song is over, the mikes turned off, the lights dimmed, all the glitter and glamour shed, and I am left alone with my own thoughts, free to contemplate the paths that led me to where I am today, I pause to give thanks.

CeCe Winans

Song, Light, Giving

CeCe Winans (2000). “On a Positive Note”, Beyond Words/Atria Books

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When someone asks about Boston, I put my brain on pause. I feel like I took a 5,000 pounds off my back to be here.

Manny Ramirez

Boston, Brain, Pounds

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Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

Marcus Aurelius

Thee, Occasions, Asks

Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.114, Enhanced Media Publishing

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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

Oscar Wilde

Voice, Gestures, Littles

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This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

Dorothea Lange

Looks, Benefits, Quiet

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An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar.

Robert Pinsky

Couple, Reading, Mean

"The Pause: An Underestimated Element in Poetry". poemsoutloud.net. April 14, 2009.

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