“A life postponed too long might never be lived.”
Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean
Part 2, Chapter 9 (p. 111)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
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“Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.”
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist
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“What has been postponed by reason of road and effort is well postponed.”
Vilhelm Ekelund (1880–1949) Swedish poet
Source: The Second Light (1986), p. 132
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter I: On Saving Time
“If only procrastination could be postponed!”
Tarik Gunersel (1953) Turkish actor
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“Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.”
Le désir s'accroît quand l'effet se recule.
Polyeucte, act I, scene i.
Polyeucte (1642)
“Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons”
Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer
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“The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.”
Murray Leinster (1896–1975) Novelist, short story writer
(p. 115 in The Hugo Winners vol. 1 edited by Isaac Asimov).
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