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Quotes About Moment

Such beauty that for a minute death and ambition, even love, doesn't enter into this.
~ Raymond Carver
What's there to tell? The people over there embrace for a minute, and then they go inside the house together. They leave the light burning. Then they remember, and it goes out.
~ Raymond Carver
Teníamos esa extraña sensación de que, ahora que nos dábamos cuenta de que ya había sucedido todo, podía suceder cualquier cosa.
~ Raymond Carver
The woman and the white-haired old man looked at the clock, as if it might tell them something about their situation and what they were supposed to do next.
~ Raymond Carver
Mr Cobb was my escort. Such a nice escort, Mr Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I should see him sober. Somebody should see him sober. I mean, just for the record. So it could become a part of history, that brief flashing moment, soon buried in time, but never forgotten - when Larry Cobb was sober.
~ Raymond Chandler
Such a nice escort, Mr. Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I should see him sober. Somebody should see him sober. I mean, just for the record. So it could become a part of history, that brief flashing moment, soon buried in time, but never forgotten—when Larry Cobb was sober.
~ Raymond Chandler
She came back with the glass and her fingers, cold from holding the glass, touched mine, and I held them for a moment and then let them go slowly, as you let go of a dream when you wake with the sun in your face and you have been in an enchanted valley
~ Raymond Chandler
I'm a weak character, without guts or ambition. I caught the brass ring and it shocked me to find out it wasn't gold. A guy like me has one big moment in his life, one perfect swing on the high trapeze. Then he spends the rest of his time trying not to fall off the sidewalk into the gutter.
~ Raymond Chandler
Mr. Cobb was my escort, she said. Such a nice escort, Mr. Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I should see him sober. Somebody should him sober. I mean, just for the record. So it could become a part of history, that brief flashing moment, soon buried in time, but never forgotten — when Larry Cobb was sober.
~ Raymond Chandler
I looked at my watch, put my pipe in an ashtray, and then had to look at my watch again to see what time it was
~ Raymond Chandler
it is almost impossible in the heat of the moment to understand long-term consequences.
~ Raymond E. Feist
For each moment of sorrow I have visited upon you, O my lady, I pray the gods grant me a year to gift you with joy. I am again your adoring subject.
~ Raymond E. Feist
youth often understood without having to be taught about seizing the joy of the moment, about not thinking too much of tomorrow and the worries and concerns it would bring, or too much about yesterday, with all its regrets and guilt.
~ Raymond E. Feist
He could not challenge him on that and besides, what he said was truth, which at this moment was dangerous.
~ Raymond E. Feist
It is easy to time-travel, the physicist says—we do it every day. Travelling backward is the problem.
~ Rebecca Curtis
Measured over too short a span, change becomes imperceptible; people mistake today's peculiarities for eternal verities.
~ Rebecca Solnit
When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless. . . . Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by. Her horizon seemed to her limitless.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Now I recall my emotions at that moment, children seem to me a remarkable race. They want so much to murder so many people, and they so rarely murder anybody at all.
~ Rebecca West
but it is not what one does so much as the way that while one does it time runs past forever.
~ Rebecca West
This is my favorite time of the day. Light and dark touch for a few moments. [...] I used to wish dusk would last longer, but its quickness seems to add to making it special.
~ Regina McBride
Hány fiatal tett magáévá a La Concha öltözÅ'kabinjaiban annak a kétségbeesett tudatában, hogy a pillanatnak kell élni, ami talán soha nem tér vissza, mert bármikor megjelenhetnek a rendÅ'rök, és letartóztathatnak mindannyiunkat.
~ Reinaldo Arenas
Te montrer à l'univers, le temps d'un éclair, puis m'enfermer avec toi, seul, et te regarder pendant l'éternité.
~ René Barjavel
Telling himself there was no harm in one kiss, Severly leaned and gently took her lips with his. As the warmth of his mouth held hers, the world stopped for Celia. Everything became part of this moment - the sunlight filtering in from the window behind them, the scent of tuberoses and lilies, all became part of this, her first kiss.
~ Rhonda Woodward
Por fin me ha sucedido algo. Por fin me ha sucedido algo, ¿no es sensacional?
~ Ricardo Piglia