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Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.

—Ben Jonson, 1601

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.

—Charles Lamb, 1810

The past is always tense and the future, perfect.

—Zadie Smith, 2000

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

—Frank Zappa, 1989

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

—John Quincy Adams, 1844
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