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• In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Garden, Enemy, Sculpture

  Jamaica Kincaid (2001). “My Garden (Book)”, p.96, Macmillan

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• Over time, passion wanes, differences don't.

  Amy Tan

  Passion, Differences

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.26, Penguin

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• You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.

  Greta Gerwig

  New York, Sadness, Cities

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Cartooning is completely different from other media: it is closely related to film and prose, other narrative forms, but the skills needed to realize a story are very different, and include not only drawing and writing dialogue and narration, but graphic design and the ability to depict time passing visually. It's a whole suite of skills that has to go into making a comics page, skills that are quite distinct from those that go into writing a page of prose, or making a film.

  Jessica Abel

  Writing, Design, Different

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• Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.

  Bill Hybels

  Hurt, Real, Passion

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• Now, a lot of people look for answers in spirituality or different texts, but for me this is life. This is what life is: the passage of time. It's not about how to pass the time, but about the acceptance of the time passing. I know people think of my work as spiritual, but really it's just that I consume time. That's all.

  Tehching Hsieh

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

  Junot Diaz

  Men, Thinking, Being Me

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• I think that my early poems were probably more concerned with time passing because of unfulfilled desires or yearnings. Now, I feel younger than I felt when I was a young old man. Now I want to live as long as I can.

  Jonathan W. Galassi

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Your skin is prickly from fatigue and pain and there is a hissing in your ears. Time passes and the pills are taking hold like a glowing white planet coming into view. A reverse eclipse. And you watch with your eyes closed. The white planet is half exposed, it grips your heart in its light and seems to be pulling you forward and now you feel that you are falling. You are awake but dreaming. "The earth is not beautiful but the universe is," you say.

  Patrick deWitt

  Beautiful, Dream, Pain

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• Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

  Marc Bolan

  Time Passing, Ifs

  "Marc Bolan: 'I am the Cosmic Dancer who dances his way out of the womb' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Keith Altham, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Intimacy is not trapped within words. It passes through words. It passes. The truth is that intimates leave the room. Doors close. Faces move away from the window. Time passes. Voices recede into the dark. Death finally quiets the voice. And there is no way to deny it. No way to stand in the crowd, uttering one's family language.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Moving, Dark, Doors

  Richard Rodriguez (2004). “Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez”, p.40, Bantam

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• Time passes. That's for sure.

  Eileen Myles

  Eileen Myles (2016). “Chelsea Girls”, p.93, Serpent's Tail

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• Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as time passes by, names do not remain the same - even if they don't change.

  Victor Pelevin

  Names, World, Problem

  Victor Pelevin (2008). “The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel”, p.10, Penguin

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• The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.

  Sappho

  Lying, Moon, Night

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• I think as humans we're nostalgic creatures and that's what we do. We go back to things that have a semblance of something comforting, or enough time passes that it seems cool again, or maybe it's something that some people didn't even experience.

  Jeremy Scott

  Thinking, People, Comforting

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I know that telling the story, there are certain events I want to skip, and certain events I want to hit. The time passing allows for - if you're really following people's lives, and this isn't a cartoon - someone gets pregnant, a child will be born, etc. You really don't want to be locked into "Every episode is a month later." The show is very intense to make. There's always going to be some downtime between seasons, and to me, it really helps to come back to the next season in the reality of that world, and have almost as much time passed in their lives as has passed in yours.

  Matthew Weiner

  Children, Reality, Cartoon

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The idea that we can operate in different times is very important for me. And it manifests in daily life or when you meditate. In a way, it's a very scientific thing that you experience for yourself, how time passes, how your body can react to time in different ways.

  Apichatpong Weerasethakul

  Important, Different, Daily Life

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Time passed so much more slowly than space.

  Martha Ostenso

  Time, Space

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• Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Ease, Action

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”

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• If you're just letting the time pass at your job, it's just dead time and you'll never get it back. If at that job you're learning and you're observing and you're seeing about people and connections, it's suddenly alive time.

  Robert Greene

  Jobs, People, Connections

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When I wrote The Interestings, I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Moving, Book, Giving

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• These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Spring, Intelligent, Lovely

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• After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original, and to remember that originality should not be undiscovered plagiarism.

  Henry Peach Robinson

  Creativity, Students, Originality

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• An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Example, Noble

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.97, Oxford University Press

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• The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.

  William Hope Hodgson

  Fall, Dark, Night

  William Hope Hodgson (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Hope Hodgson (Illustrated)”, p.218, Delphi Classics

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