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This increasingly intelligent, fast-moving civilization needs to be applying some of its intelligence to things that change slowly. . . . If we are constantly tending to the immediate, day-to-day problems, we'll lose that sense of the long term, and then we could be really sorry.

—Stewart Brand

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Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

—Ann Aguirre in Wanderlust

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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

—Flannery O'Connor

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I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all.

—Jane Green in Mr. Maybe

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What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and disagreeable man, somebody who has no position in society and never will have. Very well, even if that were true, I should want to show by my work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric man, of such a nobody.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

—Katherine Paterson

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Your next-door neighbor . . . is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a pianola; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

—G. K. Chesterton

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If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.

—William Shakespeare

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

—Japanese proverb

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

—Thornton Wilder

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Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

—John Dewey

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Resolve and thou art free.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

—G. K. Chesterton

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

—Blaise Pascal

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Be careful how you interpret the world: it is like that.

—Erich Heller

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