“If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.”
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Robert Penn Warren 49
American poet, novelist, and literary critic 1905–1989Related quotes

“I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much.”

As Much As You Can http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=113&cat=1
Collected Poems (1992)

Known as the Common Law of Business Balance, this quotation has been widely attributed to Ruskin but has never been sourced to any of his works.
[Shapiro, Fred R., The Yale Book of Quotations, 2006, Yale University Press, New Haven, 657]
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