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• The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Past, Thinking, Looks

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• Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Children, Regret, Don't Regret

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.

  Katherine Dunn

  Men, Texas, Years

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• A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

  George R. R. Martin

  Magic, Looks, Nine

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.685, Bantam

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Good Friend, Boys

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• No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.

  Thomas Beecham

  Stars, Enough, Died

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• You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Moving, Sleep, Long

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• While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes – this faculty soon enough became a seditious agent working against us … we need to hamper our consciousness for all we are worth or it will impose upon us a too clear vision of what we do not want to see … Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are – hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones

  Thomas Ligotti

  Vision, Needs, Agents

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• The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

  Robert Hass

  Waiting, Bird, Woods

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• What is well done is done soon enough.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Done, Wells, Enough

  Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”

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• Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

  William Saroyan

  Trying, Alive, Live Life Happy

  William Saroyan (1934). “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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• God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

  Sigrid Undset

  Done, May, Grants

  Sigrid Undset (2013). “The Axe: The Master of Hestviken”, p.144, Vintage

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• Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.

  Alan Parry

  Football, Usual, Commentators

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• Don’t worry,” Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. “My old bones will follow yours soon enough.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Kissing, Worry, Bones

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.327, Macmillan

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• It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

  Justin Cronin

  Lying, Deceit, Stories

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.129, Ballantine Books

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• I've lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.

  George R. R. Martin

  Brother, Father, War

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.2486, Bantam

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• The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to bed ignoring their plaintive protests that they were not tired. They wept themselves to sleep soon enough.

  Meg Cabot

  Sibling, Tired, Sleep

  Meg Cabot (2016). “Bad Heir Day”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• We'll find out soon enough," Xavier growled. "You don't see too many V Star 250s around here" "How do you know the bike model?" I asked. "I'm a boy. We like engines

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Stars, Boys, Models

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Halo: Number 1 in series”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• As for me: I loyally remained right where I was, remembering the very first I had ever seen the boy and then just now, the very last time-and all the times in between. The deep aching grief I knew I would feel would come soon enough, but at that moment mostly what I felt was peace, secure in the knowledge that by living my life the way I had, everything had come down to this moment. I had fulfilled my purpose.

  W. Bruce Cameron

  Grief, Boys, Purpose

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• Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.

  Shimon Peres

  Trust, Government, Talking

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Sleep

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Men, Race

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Justice, Diversity, Suffering

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic eye. In the meantime, live like a scientist - even a controversial one with only an ally or two in all the world - and treat life as a grand experiment, blood, sweat, tears and all. Bear in mind that there's no such thing as a failed experiment - only data.

  Jesse Bering

  Life, Eye, Sweat

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• Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

  William Saroyan

  Motivational, Death, Anger

  William Saroyan (1934). “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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