“To think that in a moment all will be said, all to do again.”
The Calmative (1946)
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Chuck Palahniuk
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Variant: I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.
“Let me say it again:
the present moment is all you ever have.”
Eckhart Tolle
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Variant: Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.
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Robert Rauschenberg
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Edward Heath
(1916–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)
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Jerome David Salinger
(1919–2010) American writer
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Steven Moffat
(1961) Scottish television writer and producer
Lines written for River Song, in Forest of the Dead [4.9] (7 June 2008)
Context: When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever, for one moment, accepts it.