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Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that is the key


Karen Hackel

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The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As...
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Instead, embrace it all.
Allow 'what is' to fill your
inner-...
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Everything passes.

That is the o...
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ELTON GALLEGLY We have only to conquer
Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
Now is the triumph...
T.S. ELIOT Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus.
Now I am dead,
Now I am fled,
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AMIT RAY To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... For we have thought the longer thoughts
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devil'...
PHILIP LARKIN Time is drowning,
Hearts are burning,
Heads are rolling,
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Your freedom comes naturally;
Everything about y...
MATTHEW BELLAMY Now I know I am done. Now I know She is done.

~ Aarush Kashyap
KIRTIDA GAUTAM You prank me
…

You fuck with me
…

You screw me up

…...
DEYTH BANGER Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution.

Procrastinate now, don’t put it...
ELLEN DEGENERES There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is n...
WALT WHITMAN Yours

(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and ...
FRANZ KAFKA You can miss an experience by obsessing over how to contain it.
GINA GREENLEE No need for false hope...

...

So far where I am now... is nowhere done... just...
DEYTH BANGER Nothing is endless
I know that now
Let me go
V
-Violet's letter
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON In the Land of Memory the time is always Now.
In the Kingdom of Ago, the clocks tick... ...
STEPHEN KING Nunc fluens facit tempus,
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.

(The now that passes produc...
BOETHIUS There is now a distance,
pressing quite persistent,
May be only inches apart,
but as ...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH and angle of vision, dust, gravity, solitude,
and the part of the law which is the world's wai...
JORIE GRAHAM Living is
a thing you do
now or never -
which do you?
PIET HEIN My arms look
as if blood is . . .
And on my feet . . .
It is dropping on my feet. SANDRA HARNER Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Y...
TERESA OF ÁVILA The difference is,
Now I cant call you anymore…
I cant hear your calming voice,
I c...
JJM Just a moment ago, I was thinking of postponing my dream for tomorrow, but I decided to take a look ...
PHILIP T. M. The human heart can go to the lengths of God.
Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no winter...
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I guess it'd make no difference;
Fate's sure in the way s...
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JEFFREY FRY And I know now that all the time I was trying to get
out of the dust,
the fact is,
wh...
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with all NCAA rules, and our student-athlete...
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SOTONYE ANGA And I want you now
I want you now
I'll feel my heart implode
And I'm breaking out
MUSE Parting

One is strong, a child now grown
The other weak, a parent aged
-
T...
MUSE i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a b...
E.E. CUMMINGS Find yourself a cup of tea,
the teapot is behind you.
Now tell me about
hundreds of t...
SAKI The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls
Of mastodons, are billiard balls.

The sword of ...
ARTHUR GUITERMAN When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH ...
You are here again,
so realistic,
just, the golden dawn
takes you away
ZORICA SAVRON A poem is a frozen moment
melted by each reader for themselves
to flow into the here and n...
HILDE DOMIN Now faith is not what we
hereafter have we have a
world resting on nothing

Rest...
SUSAN HOWE The river of knowledge has no depth.
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE I’ve got a question for you… Are you the person who you thought you’d be by now? I know I am n...
PABLO Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There are passages and doors
And Realms that lie unseen.
There are Roads both wide and na...
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The only way to know is die
Then to reveal its convenien...
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We'll sit beside the candles glow
Exchanging tales about our pas...
EILEEN HEHL Fee-fi-fo-fum -
Now I'm borrowed.
Now I'm numb.
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For when I trust myself, I fear no one else
I took control o...
BEASTIE BOYS Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL I’ll see you forever
For you are a part of me
And I myself a part of thee
Inseparable i...
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"Your name and password....
MARK LAWRENCE I laughed as we turned in a tight circle... "Tonight you're all mine."

Jake smiled but lo...
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I see it in the water.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in...
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So Tel...
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And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on an...
OVID When you are doing all that you know to do

yet all hell is breaking out around you,
SANJO JENDAYI Gaara: Can Sasuke come out to Die?
Kakashi: Not Now.
Gaara:.............
Gaara: How ...
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The secret is in action -...
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"Brilliant!" I said.
"On your tongue," she added.
"E...
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It locks two souls together across spa...
KION AHADI Do it now.
Sometimes
"later"
Become
"Never
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No promises on time.
There is only this moment.
And ...
J. SAMAN Now she is ignoring me as first

...

AS second


Not every word...
DEYTH BANGER If today is not your day,
then be happy
for this day shall never return.
And if to...
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But still the sky is blue.
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in 1948
they founded the UN,
the United Nations
so th...
AD DE BONT Now go
Occupy spaces
Fill the room
Walk in your crown
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MARTY RUBIN Latin is a dead tongue
And Romans made songs!
Then no one disagree:
It delighted t...
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Because you will not tolerate anything else." LAURELL K. HAMILTON ... back then the sky seemed so vast.

And now the sky above me... is low, and narrow, an...
INIO ASANO Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
GINA GREENLEE Listen to the sadness,
the echoes in my mind,
the place where I usually hide,
but now...
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in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
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and yet the cold blue word is spoken:
say goodbye now to ...
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Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice cra...
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"We, um... Haven't gotten through the introductio...
HOWARD TAYLER Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me.

“Is it true you almost drowned Roamer...
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BRIAN ENO Now that you're there, where everything is known—tell me:
What else lived in that house beside...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Let her go!" That was a new voice, young but full of authority. ... There was Prince Maxon.
......
KIERA CASS TAKE A STAND RIGHT NOW! BECAUSE tomorrow IS THE ONLY DAY OF THE WEEK THAT NEVER COMES!!
PHILIP T. M. Amazing grace! how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost but now a...
JOHN NEWTON The greenhouse effect I am knowing;
To protest right now I am going,
But oh my gee whiz, ALAN COOK We make our future
SOTONYE ANGA Things should have been
so different
to the way they are
now.
EMMA CAMERON Sometimes now was enough.
Sometimes it was everything.
MARY BALOGH

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KAREN BLACK If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I c...
KAREN BLACK I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
KAREN BLACK I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little...
KAREN BLACK I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dea...
KAREN BLACK I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
KAREN BLACK If you can write it, I can be it.
KAREN BLACK When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the s...
KAREN BENDER You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You do...
KAREN BENDER At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in peop...
KAREN BENDER Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, fra...
KAREN BENDER My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s...
KAREN BENDER When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth...
KAREN BENDER Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
KAREN BENDER What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
KAREN BENDER Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu...
KAREN BENDER Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i...
KAREN BENDER Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi...
KAREN BENDER The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund&...
KAREN BENDER Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
KAREN BENDER Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
KAREN BENDER Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.
KAREN BENDER I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
KAREN BASS My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
KAREN BASS