"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring."
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"I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life)."
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"I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak."
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"It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?"
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"Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself."
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"I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon."
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"Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff."
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"Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear..."
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"But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees"
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"I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head."
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"To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon."
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"Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June."
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"She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life."
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"I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, too, as soon as ye can sit down again." "As for my pleasure..." His lip twitched. "I said I would have to punish you. I did not say I wasna going to enjoy it." He crooked a finger at me. "Come here."
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"Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters."
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"He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden."
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"I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon."
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"There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark."
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"I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason."
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"She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life."
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