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“Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“That which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“Why us for that matter? Why anything ? Because this moment simply is.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“Go mindless. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure
“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.” John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
“A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever” Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
“Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only.” Albert Camus, The Plague
“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
“one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.” Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.” Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy—one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“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
“Veronika knew that life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“It can only take a moment . . . to waste the rest of your life...” Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff
“The truth is that no mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.” Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering?” Albert Camus, The Plague
“There is always time for another last minute.” Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.” Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
“But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell-burst, the plummet of the car from the bridge.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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