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- From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. AS he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.
(William Peter Blatty, "The Exorcist")
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- I was standing outside myself trying to stop those hangings with ghost fingers... I am a ghost wanting what every ghost wants-a body-after the Long Time moving through odorless alleys of space where no life is, only the colorless no smell of death...Nobody can breath and smell it through pink convolutions of gristle laced with crystal snot, time shit and black blood filters of flesh.
(William S. Burroughs, "Naked Lunch")
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- O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time...
(William S. Burroughs, "Naked Lunch")
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- Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.
(William Shakespeare, "As You Like It")
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- Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
(William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing")
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- I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. I know the handle has long since rotted away with time. Perhaps the rusty frame of a coal-oil lantern still hangs there on the blade.
(Wilson Rawls, "Where the Red Fern Grows")
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- Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.
(W. Paul Young, "The Shack")
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- I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think... I think... maybe... it's both happening at the same time.
(Winston Groom, "Forrest Gump")
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- Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.
(Walter Scott, "Ivanhoe")
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- My greatest wish -- other than salvation -- was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
(Wilkie Collins, "The Woman in White")
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- Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time
(William Faulkner, "As I Lay Dying")
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- And the sins of the Eastern father shall be visited upon the Western sons. Often taking their time, stored up in the genes like baldness or testicular carcinoma, but sometimes on the very same day.
(Zadie Smith, "White Teeth")
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- It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.
(William Faulkner, "As I Lay Dying")
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