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I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.
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wasted-time
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Alison Weir |
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He's completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.
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wasted-time
smoke
cigarette
growing-up
kid
child
young
childhood
memory
nostalgia
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Rebecca McNutt |
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"I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded science projects, encyclopedias, and road atlases. I left much of that wonder somewhere back in Baltimore. Now I had the privilege of welcoming it back like a long-lost friend, though our reunion was laced with grief; I mourned over all the years that were lost. The mourning continues. Even today, from time to time, I find myself on beaches watching six-year-olds learn to surf, or at colleges listening to sophomores slip from English to Italian, or at cafes seeing young poets flip though "The Waste Land," or listening to the radio where economists explain economic things that I could've explored in my lost years, mourning, hoping that I and all my wonder, my long-lost friend, have not yet run out of time, though I know that we all run out of time, and some of us run out of it faster."
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mourning
mortality
wonder
meaning
wasted-time
inertia
purpose
regret
knowledge
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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The night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two A.M. changes to six A.M. You know this moment has come and gone, but you are not yet willing to concede that you have crossed the line beyond which all is gratuitous damage and the palsy of unraveled nerve endings. Somewhere back there you could have cut your losses, but your rode past that moment on a comet trail of white powder and now you are trying to hang on to the rush.
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late-nights
wasted-time
night-life
drugs
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Jay McInerney |
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"I would bear it for her if I could.
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pain
philosophy
wasted-time
wishing
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Penelope Fitzgerald |
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In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?
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life
wasted-time
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Mitch Albom |
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She had to defend him in order to defend herself. That was why people were so prickly about their partners, even their ex-partners. To admit that Duncan wasn't up to much was to own up publicly to the terrible waste of time, and terrible lapses in judgment and taste. She had stuck up for Spandau Ballet in just the same way at school, even after she had stopped liking them.
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poor-judgment
rationalizations
self-justification
wasted-time
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Nick Hornby |
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We are wasting time. Time wastes itself. Who are we to float in its way?
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time
wasted-time
wasting-time
waste
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Iain M. Banks |