Wilkie Collins Quotes
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One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
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I've never been swimming, and that's because it's never been more than half an hour since I last ate.
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With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
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Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.
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...Some things...arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring.
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The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.
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The tree does not die, it waits.
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I hope we can join eighteen other states in saying that $5.15 an hour is not enough.
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Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws...
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For every moment of joy Every hour of fear For every winding road that brought me here For every breath, for every day of living This is my Thanksgiving...
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Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee—and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still.
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Eating toast in the shower is the ultimate multitask.
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You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute.
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If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.
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A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.
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Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes.
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A fellow must know where he wants to go, if he is going to get anywhere. It is so easy just to drift along. Some people go through school as if they thought they were doing their families a favor. On a job, they work along in a humdrum way, interested only in their salary check. They don't have a goal. When anyone crosses them up, they take their marbles and walk out. The people who go places and do things make the most of every situation. They are ready for the next thing that comes along on the road to their goal. They know what they want and are willing to go an extra mile.
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If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.
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The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
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My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
