“Don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by?”
Bruce Cockburn (1945) Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter
Stealing Fire (1984)
“This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.”
— Alice Hoffman, book Here on Earth
Source: Here on Earth
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