Top 100 How Slow Quotes

#1. But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to walk. I came to run. That's the reason-the only reason-I flew all the way to the northern tip of Japan. No matter how slow I might run, I wasn't about to walk. That was the rule.

Haruki Murakami

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#2. I am taking this in, slowly,
Taking it into my body.
This grief. How slow
The body is to realize
You are never coming back.

Donna Masini

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#3. Inch by inch it's all a cinch, by the yard it's hard. Go for it
no matter how slow or long the process seems at first.

Mardi Ballou

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#4. It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop

Confucius

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#5. It's funny how fast a book goes, but how slow the wait appears.
the book may end, but the mind still thinks ... waiting for that book
see? I became a poet!

Nandanie Phalgoo

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#6. How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!

Hilaire Belloc

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#7. How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!

Henry David Thoreau

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#8. He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.

Hanya Yanagihara

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#9. No matter how slow or long it takes, it is never too late to right a wrong.

Mark W. Boyer

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#10. Slow down your mind. Slower. Think about how slow you have to drive when there's someone on a bicycle in front of you in the middle of your lane. Are you annoyed? Don't be.

Ellen DeGeneres

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#11. How slow life is, how violent hope is.

Guillaume Apollinaire

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#12. I knew well enough how slow the heart is to catch up with the brute facts. One looks forward to a joy: it is snatched away at the last minute: and, hours later, there are darts of illusory delight when one still feels that it is to come. Such moments cheat one and pass sickeningly away. So,

C.P. Snow

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#13. She just looked at him over the rotating pencil like, how slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions? But instead of lowering the boom on him, she just gave a simple answer: No.

Neal Stephenson

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#14. I didn't realize how slow my four-year-old MacBook was until the web team wanted to start using it as the benchmark for a slow computer experience.

Chris Milk

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#15. It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was.

Brian Setzer

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#16. Breaking up is like unsticking your fingers after you've Superglued them. Love's the glue and no matter how slow and carefully you separate, you're going to lose a little bit of yourself in the process. You're also going to retain a little DNA from the one you lost.

Toni Sorenson

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#17. How quick are we to learn: that is, to imitate what others have done or thought before. And how slow to understand: that is, to see the deeper connections.

Frits Zernike

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#18. It matters not how slow you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

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#19. No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.

Minor White

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#20. In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

Napoleon Bonaparte

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#21. Never discourage anyone ... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

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#22. How slow and still the time did drag along.

Mark Twain

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#23. No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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#24. I want it real slow, baby."- Winter
"How slow?"- Braxxon
"So slow I can feel you entering my soul."- Winter

Crystal Spears

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#25. You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.

Zach Braff

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#26. Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
Like to a step-dame or a dowager
Long withering out a young man revenue.

William Shakespeare

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#27. How slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
Like to a stepdame, or a dowager,
Long withering out a young man's revenue.

William Shakespeare

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#28. Think how slow would be your progress in learning without printed books: you could study only manuscripts, and those necessarily must be very few in number. Learn from this to value your books, and always handle them with care.

Dorothea Dix

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#29. Life is moving with its own speed no matter how slow or how fast you are going.

Debasish Mridha

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#30. How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?

Neal Stephenson

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#31. Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

Curtis Sittenfeld

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#32. My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

Georg Brandes

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#33. And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.

Maurice Sendak

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#34. it doesnt matter how slow you go, as long as you dont stop

Elin

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#35. Have you been kissed before?"
"I don't know whether to say yes or no. Which answer will make you do it again?"
"Oh, I'm going to do it again." His thumb stroked her cheek. "Just wanted to know how slow to take things."
"A little faster would be fine.

Tessa Dare

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#36. Keep moving; keep moving, no matter how slow you move, you must keep moving.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#37. The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#38. I am committed to my dreams.
It does not matter how slow, I am moving towards my dreams, I will get to the finish line.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#39. It was important for a person not to let their body or mind become slow and dull. Oba believed it was important to learn new things. He believed it was important to grow. He thought it was important for a person to use what they had learned. That was how people grew.

Terry Goodkind

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#40. You know, people ask, "How does the chemistry happen?" It's like being in a bar when you're drunk. You see the person, and you don't know why, it just works. And it's like everything goes in slow-motion.

Sandra Bullock

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#41. Are you calling me your gift?"
"Yes." She smiled. "How do you feel about that?"
"Like it's my turn to be unwrapped."
He nibbled at her mouth. "Do it slow.

Nalini Singh

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#42. Being here reminded him of how hard the city had been, it's unyielding surfaces, the relentless need for more and more money just to keep yourself vaguely afloat. The city was not a place for the contemplative or the slow.

Meg Wolitzer

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#43. Though snails are exceedingly slow,
There is one thing I'd like to know.
If I out run 'em round the yard,
How come they beat me to the chard?

Allen Klein

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#44. Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.

Dorothy Allison

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#45. A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave.

Kelly Slater

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#46. The towns and countryside that the traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train affect them. Neither disturbs the other. This is how you should see the thoughts that pass through your mind when you meditate.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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#47. You think I'm deranged! How refreshing. Everyone here takes me so seriously, it's a wonderful change to be thought mentally deficient.

Katie MacAlister

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#48. Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their torturously slow-burning romance is a classic example of how men and women still struggle to communicate the most basic of emotions.

Mariella Frostrup

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#49. How do you feel about vaporizing or slow,
agonizing radiation sickness?"
"I usually don't think in those terms.

Cynthia Joyce Clay

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#50. Suddenly all is quiet. The other nine players? They're all moving in slow motion! I'm at normal speed! I know where everyone's going even before they know themselves. The basket is huge, maybe six feet across! How can I miss? It's like throwing a rock into a pond.

Michael Jordan

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#51. Habits of an empowerED teacher: "read, notice, think, make theories about how writing works, imagine possibilities, write yourself; it isn't magic, it's just slow, creative work.

Penny Kittle

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#52. If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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#53. It's not rash," she said, a fiery tone to her words. "I've waited two years for him to realize how I felt. He's just a little slow on the uptake.

Ronie Kendig

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#54. You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.

Katherine Ellison

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#55. The world is progressing. One man cannot slow it, no matter how determined he is.
He stopped in the path.
You cannot stop the tides from changing, Dusk. No matter how determined you are. His mother's words.

Brandon Sanderson

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#56. Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.

Yao Ming

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#57. You're fucking crazy, he finally said, as though just realizing that. Hell, he had been with her how long now? Surely forever. And he was just now seeing that? Poor guy, he was just slow.

Lora Leigh

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#58. Why, after all these decades of campaign, reform, research and thought about how we can best get women into the workplace, are we so slow to pick up that the most important next step is how to get men out of it?

Annabel Crabb

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#59. The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.

Adrian Tomine

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#60. Driving through them, most places look about the same as most others. Walking around is how you get the sense of a place's character. Walking keeps you slow enough to notice the little things.

Michael G. Williams

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#61. Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.

James Hansen

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#62. I don't study films particularly. I plan to direct, but I'm not watching film - I watch the entire film to see how the story goes, but I don't say, 'Oh, so he does a slow pan here, or he pulls here, watch the crane shot, or look at the composition,' because it's got to be my eye.

James Cromwell

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#63. It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough.

Neal Shusterman

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#64. Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

Joan Miro

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#65. How time seemed to blur and slow and even stop, how the past and the future vanished until there was nothing but the instant, how fear fled, and thought fled, and even your body.

George R R Martin

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#66. How the fuck do I know that my better is anything more than the great big fat lie we tell ourselves to justify the slow fat nothing of our days.

Claire North

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#67. It is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice, a hug, a new dress - a resolve to keep out questions and cling to secrets

Mary E. Pearson

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#68. Your generation does everything so fast I think you've forgotten how to enjoy the pleasures of going slow.

Nancy Thayer

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#69. She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

Gwendoline Riley

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#70. The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

Joseph Murray

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#71. Too many of us are afraid to slow down because then we would have to take a good look at how we're using our time and what we're becoming. We don't want to listen to that other voice deep inside, telling us something is not right.

Dennis Rainey

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#72. This was how history moved, the slow build, the quick burn, and in an incoherence, the leaping both backward and forward, swallowing the young into old hate.

Kiran Desai

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#73. I had to get slow and dumb (not take anything for granted) and watch and see how everything connects, how you contact your thoughts and lay them down on paper.

Natalie Goldberg

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#74. The door that would not open no matter how hard you pushed, no matter how long you pounded on it. The screams no one heard. Darkness, hunger, pain. Slow suffocation. One day it occurred to me that I needed to experience the same suffering he had.

Yoko Ogawa

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#75. Now there she goes again, the dopest Ethiopian,
And now the world around me be gets movin in slow motion
Whenever she happens to walk by, why does the apple of my eye
Overlook and disregard my feelings no matter how much I try?

Fatlip

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#76. Real intelligence is a creative use of knowledge, not merely an accumulation of facts. The slow thinker who can finally come up with an idea of his own is more important to the world than a walking encyclopedia who hasn't learned how to use this information productively.

Susan Winebrenner

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#77. In this book I will teach you, based on stuff I have either made up, observed, or overheard, how to live the life you want
the life you Will. Obviously, if your name is Will and you are slow, this book will be confusing/upsetting. Be careful. Thanks.

Eugene Mirman

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#78. When I run on the beach, it's always in slow motion. That's just how I roll.

Amber Heard

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#79. To me it's not so much that the movies are slow-paced as much as they are about spending time building a relationship between the audience and the characters. If you don't spend an adequate amount of time doing this, then how can you expect to scare anyone?

Ti West

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#80. There have been years where I've had to take a real job and I wrote during slow times and lunches. I think never forgetting how lucky I am to be able to do something I love has really fueled me.

Caroline Leavitt

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#81. How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

Graham Swift

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#82. The world, control phones, don't you think??? But not only phones everything, the world time and how is build make you angry and nerves. Good moments pass fast, bad pass slow, but WHY?? It's th right question?

Deyth Banger

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#83. The FDA is now warning people not to eat raw cookie dough this holiday season. Is that how fat we're getting in this country? Our ovens are too slow now?

Jay Leno

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#84. I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.

Gareth Gates

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#85. In the first of our conversations, you explained how different time was for you - how it's an abstraction. Some hours glide past like birds, others are slow, plodding behemoths, stubborn and unwilling to leave.

Fiddles McMonkeypants

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#86. In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.

Arthur Hugh Clough

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#87. Our greatest pleasure consists in being admired; but those who admire us, even if they have every reason to do so, are slow to express their sentiments. Hence he is the happiest man who, no matter how, manages sincerely to admire himself - so long as other people leave him alone.]

Arthur Schopenhauer

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#88. In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.

Amby Burfoot

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#89. And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a day.

Barbara Kingsolver

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#90. I warn you, I've been challenged before. That's how it all started, you know? Hoyte tried to kill me the same way. In case you haven't heard, Hoyte is dead. I did him slow and left him displayed. So if you're looking for entertainment, I can guarantee you'll get it.

Michael J. Sullivan

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#91. But that's how nostalgia is: a slow dance in a large circle. Memories don't organize themselves chronologically, they're like smoke, changing, ephemeral, and if they're not written down they fade into oblivion.

Isabel Allende

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#92. Many writers, including myself, have detailed how irresponsible government actions slow economic recoveries. Similar behavior by individuals impedes growth, too. If you can't find someone reliable to do a deal with, you simply don't do the deal at all.

Amity Shlaes

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#93. The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home
and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.

Rolf Potts

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#94. Do you know how,
sometimes, when you first wake up,
your pulse is so thorough, so slow,
that you, and the one who is with you,
and the room, and the opening light all seem to swell
and subside and swell inside your heart?

Jennifer Clarvoe

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#95. Greg crossed to me, his gaze moving in a slow, cherishing path over my features. "If you knew how I saw you, how I think of you, your ego would become unmanageable.

Penny Reid

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#96. But God will know the slow tread of an old couple's love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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#97. Time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we are young and sensitive, we are also at our most hurtful; whereas when the blood begins to slow, when we feel less sharply, when we are more armoured and have learnt how to bear hurt, we tread more carefully. Nowadays

Julian Barnes

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#98. How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world.

John Maeda

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#99. I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

Rod Steiger

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#100. Louise." He eased back, cupped her face and kissed her slow and hot and easy. Over and over and over again. Loving how he could. How she let him. "It's all right. We don't have to ...

Kylie Scott

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