"Not if Their Party were waiting, Not if to talk with Me Were to Them now, Homesickness After Eternity."
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"THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, -- Her visitor no more."
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"Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes"
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"I can't wait to be able to drive, but it's hard. Good driving doesn't really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever."
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"I hated skiing or any other sport where there was an ambulance waiting at the bottom of the hill."
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"I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil."
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"A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill."
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"I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce."
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"Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end."
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"In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen."
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"I went to high school with some wonderful people, but my entire high school experience was just waiting to leave."
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"The circus goes from town to town, so why run away to join it? It should be, I've decided to wait for the circus to come."
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"The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding."
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"Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct."
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"Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting."
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"End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame."
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"When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have to wait to be hired before I could do my art. That was huge. But you still have to figure out how to support your habit; it's rare and lucky when art pays the bills."
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"If I make my window ten days for stand-up, the conclusion is that I failed and that I'm not good at stand-up. If I make it ten years - if I just wait - the conclusion might be something totally different. I think it's so cool to do things in which you discover the malleability of your own mind."
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"You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists."
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"It's always helpful to remember that in the grand scheme of things you are much more important than... um, wait, than... something, maybe."
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