“The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.”

— Jon McGregor , book If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

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Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

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“Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

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“The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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“Get well soon, Castro. [pause] Actually, no, don't; die, you bastard!”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

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“This whole world is one great City, and one is the substance whereof it is fashioned”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Context: This whole world is one great City, and one is the substance whereof it is fashioned: a certain period indeed there needs must be, while these give place to those; some must perish for others to succeed; some move and some abide: yet all is full of friends—first God, then Men, whom Nature hath bound by ties of kindred each to each. (123).