“No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.”

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American historian, writer, and environmentalist 1909–1993

Roger McGough (1937) British writer and poet

"My Busconductor", from The Mersey Sound (1967)

“Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!”

Jack Vance book To Live Forever

Source: To Live Forever (1956), Chapter VIII, section 3

“The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.”

Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters

Source: Wyrd Sisters

“Even now, not a day goes by when I don't wish I could turn back the clock and change what happened.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Denise Holton, Chapter 15, p. 166
2000s, The Rescue (2000)

“Watch the grown ups all twirling with the clock throughout the day. Watch them spinning through the hours while the time hands tick away. They talk and grip the world, as they would catch a falling knife. Reality deceives them ’neath amusing games of life.”

Dawud Wharnsby (1972) Canadian musician

"Rhythm of Surrender"
A Different Drum (2004)

“Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.”

Poul Anderson book There Will Be Time

Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 16 (p. 175)

“He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock.
The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

Scott Westerfeld book Behemoth

Source: Behemoth

“A broken clock is right two times a day.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“We lived more by the sun than by the clock, but I did own a clock. It was an eight-day windup console clock which I kept on the mantel in the living room, and it was the only timepiece in the house that worked anymore.”

James Howard Kunstler book World Made By Hand

Source: World Made By Hand (2008), Chapter 4, p. 20

“No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.”

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