"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face."
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"It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them."
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"At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them"
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"I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side."
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"The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners."
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"It's a weight problem isn't it; you can't wait for lunch."
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"The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences."
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"Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day."
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"The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed."
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"You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long."
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"How much of human life is lost in waiting."
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"I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it."
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"Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started."
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"All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting."
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"Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you."
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"the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die"
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"And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me."
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"She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become."
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"I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door."
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"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy."
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