- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
- One Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't really work on more than one thing at a time.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
- Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then I met people at school who were into Erykah Badu and Snoop Dogg. I like heaps of different music, but that was a real pivotal time in terms of finding my way.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all make snap judgments on small amounts of information. We do it all the time with online dating, deciding whether to spend time someone on the basis of a short blurb and three pics.
- Nov 07, 2020
I accidentally make innuendos all the time without even realising. I'm middle-aged, in that sense.
- Compatible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time you go on holiday is the test of a relationship, when you really find out if you're compatible or not. You find out what's annoying about that person, and whether or not you're willing to put up with that because you love them and you don't want to be alone.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Read everything. Write all the time. And if you can do anything else that gives you equal pleasure and allows you to sleep soundly at night, do that instead. The writing life is an odd one, to say the least.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think place and time for me is often a matter of convenience, something I can use to another end rather than something I'm trying to define because it's somehow fascinating to me in itself. It's more what the place can do for the larger goals I have for the work.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in characters who should know better, who know they should give up, move on, accept life as it is, with all its constraints - life, death, time - but don't.
- Dynamics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.
- Whatever
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm writing all the time. I tend to work on at least two books simultaneously. I'll spend time with one, and then I'll spend time with the other. Finishing takes whatever time it takes.
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- Nov 07, 2020