The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000
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Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987