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Distance quotes

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“Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.” Bruce Lee, “Tao of Jeet Kune Do” - 1975

“Time is more important to me than distance.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further — for time is the longest distance between two places.” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive;” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“If one had to fill in, little by little, the gap between day and night, it would take an eternity to do it. But the sun rises and the darkness is dispelled—a moment is sufficient to overcome an infinite distance.” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.” Jane Austen, “Persuasion” - 1816

“You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

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