“Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.”
Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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Variant: Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all.
One.
Two.
Three.
Blink.”
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“I'll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find…”
"Sunshine Superman"
Sunshine Superman (1966)
"Love Letters, Some Not So Loving" (a review of H.G. Wells and Rebecca West by Gordon N. Ray), in The New York Times (13 October 1974) http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/10/specials/west-ray.html; this has often been paraphrased as "Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a Judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."
Context: Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a Judge's chamber can believe in an unprejudiced point of view but, simply in self-interest, the biographer must try for one, or make us believe he has, or tell us that he hasn't.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified