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  1. Rebecca McNutt _ Mandy and Alecto: The

    Maybe a holiday miracle will change Mearth's awful behavior," Mandy suggested with optimism. "The only holiday miracle around here is that Mearth hasn't murdered us both yet," said Alecto, lighting another cigarette, his hands shaking erratically. He looked exhausted and terrified, his gray eyes soulless. "Do you know what Mearth likes, Alecto?" Mandy questioned. "Vegetables, she likes celery a lot, and lettuce," Alecto responded in a quiet monotone. "I don't know what else she likes. I've never asked her." "Well, she has to like something… doesn't everyone?" "Not her, Mandy Valems.
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  2. David Mamet _ Glengarry Glen Ross

    What is our life: {Pause.} it's looking forward or it's looking back. And that's our life. That's it. Where is the moment?
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  3. Cormac McCarthy _ Blood Meridian, or the Evening

    Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alike extinguished on the ground behind them.
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  4. Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being

    There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are
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  5. Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being

    When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.
    book-quotetimemusicpresent

  6. Nathaniel Hawthorne _ The House of the Seven Gables

    Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
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  7. Albert Camus _ Notebooks 1935-1942

    Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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  8. C.S. Lewis _ The Screwtape Letters

    The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
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  9. C.S. Lewis _ The Screwtape Letters

    For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.
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  10. C.S. Lewis _ The Screwtape Letters

    Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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  11. Wallace Stegner _ Angle of Repose

    We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and kind. {...}My grandparents had to live their way out of one world and into another, or into several others, making new out of old the way corals live their reef upward. I am on my grandparents' side. I believe in Time, as they did, and in the life chronological rather than in the life existential. We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins, or used to, and we cannot afford all these abandonings.
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  12. Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove

    He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.
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