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• I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

  Henry Ford

  Running, Years, Innovation

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• There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

  Irving Stone

  Inspirational, Friendship, Book

  Irving Stone (1941). “Clarence Darrow for the defense”, Doubleday Books

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• Of course, you’d warm up faster if you took your clothes off.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Clothes, Innuendo, Courses

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.

  Lorrie Moore

  Glasses, Ice, Cubs

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.204, Vintage

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• I keep myself busy. Time goes faster that way.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Way, Busy

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Teach

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.197, Penguin

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• You can’t. He has it shielded. Besides, he’s a god and can be a nasty one if you upset him. You try popping into any place where his beloved wife is and you’ll get fried faster than chicken at KFC. He doesn’t have a sense of humor when it comes to her. So wipe the frown off your face before you hurt her feelings and get gutted for it. (Phobos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Beloved Wife, Kfc

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.152, Macmillan

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• As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Keys, Piano, Keyboards

  Gustave Flaubert (1964). “Madame Bovary”

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• Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master: His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Blue, Yellow

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Passion, Ballet

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• Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.

  Harper Lee

  Beautiful, Baby, Morning

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.

  Richard Peck

  Years, Grew Up, Mary

  Richard Peck (1998). “A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories”, Dial

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• I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Love, Dream, Knives

  Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.116, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Mean, Pushing

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.216, Univ of California Press

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• Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Looks, Why Not

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.225, Random House

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• As the joke goes, you don’t have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.

  Kim Harrison

  Running, Chasing, Jokes

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• Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Witty, Alcohol, Political

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Fall, Scotch

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition”, p.219, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I suppose when the things that give you bad dreams live inside you, there's no point in trying to stop them. They're going to come out whenever they decide it is their time. Better just to close your eyes and hold on tight, the faster to get the things you fear to go back to sleep themselves.

  Cameron Dokey

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

  Cameron Dokey, Tracy Lynn, Liz Braswell (2015). “Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.

  Vera Nazarian

  People, Helping, Remember

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• First, consider the pen you write with. It should be a fast-writing pen because your thoughts are always much faster than your hand. You don't want to slow up your hand even more with a slow pen. A ballpoint, a pencil, a felt tip, for sure, are slow. Go to a stationery store and see what feels good to you. Try out different kinds. Don't get too fancy and expensive. I mostly use a cheap Sheaffer fountain pen, about $1.95.... You want to be able to feel the connection and texture of the pen on paper.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Hands, Feel Good

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• I wasn't born with any innate talent. I've never been naturally gifted at anything. I always had to work at it. The only way I knew how to succeed was to try harder than anyone else. Dogged persistence is what got me through life. But here was something I was half-decent at. Being able to run great distances was the one thing I could offer the world. Others might be faster, but I could go longer. My strongest quality is that I never give up.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Giving Up, Distance

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.135, Atlantic Books

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• This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.

  Jim Benton

  Running, Mean, Vampire

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• Okay, so let's run faster.

  Ridley Pearson

  Running, Okay

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• Hope your new boots are fast Bella. One little jar isn't going to keep a hungry bear occupied for long." "I only have to be faster than you.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Long, Boots, Littles

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.115, Hachette UK

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