Jeff Lindsay (writer) - Time Quotes

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Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.

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In that tremendous flash of freedom, on my way to do The Thing for the first time, sanctioned by Almighty Harry, I receded, faded back into the scenery of my own dark self, whole the other me crouched and growled. I would do It at last, do what I had been created to do. And I did.

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Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.

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For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.

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What do you want a clock for? To find out what time it is, I said. I think that's the usual purpose.

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Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?

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The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

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A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

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