“They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.”
Source: The Book Thief
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Source: Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works (1880), Ch.4 "Life and Works".

1950-07-08
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events, 1940, Mark Twain, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Harper & brothers. This appears to be the origin of the variant:
If you would have your work last forever, and by forever I mean fifty years, it must neither overtly preach nor overtly teach, but it must covertly preach and covertly teach.
Attributed to Twain by J. Michael Straczynski in The complete book of scriptwriting, 2002, Writer's Digest Books

“We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record.”
Source: Acheron