"Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy."
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"He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now."
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"Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command."
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"Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again."
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"But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.-Where is God? What is God?-My maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created. I rely implicitly on His power, and confide wholly in His goodness: I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me."
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"Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives."
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"in this room the hours of love still make shadows."
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"Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."
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"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."
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"Someone said something really interesting the other day they said, "Even documentaries aren't what happened," you know there's a huge jump between life and then putting something in a two hour movie, even if it's a documentary."
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"Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night."
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"She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance."
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"But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you."
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"This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you."
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"Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last, In things best known to you, finding the best, or as good as the best, In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest; Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but this place-not for another hour, but this hour."
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"Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim."
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"Better three hours too soon, than one hour to late."
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"So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate."
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"Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late."
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"He knows what it's like to strut and fret his hour upon the stage and then be heard no more."
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