

“D'you know, Georgie," he said, settling back comfortably in the deep grass, that there song you've been a-singin' at all day - it ain't much of a song and it ain't much of a tune, but there's real good *sense* to it, though you probably don't know it. And I'll tell you why - because there always *is* new Folks comin', that's why. There's always new Folks comin' and always new times comin'.”
― Rabbit Hill
― Rabbit Hill
“But even in this card, as in all cards: transience. The faces in the crowd — faces that will watch the every move of the lordly All-Star in the foreground — have been blurred to something like Monet’s lily pads, those hypnotic omens of the inevitable dusk into which we’ll all dissolve. All names, even those of the greatest among us, will eventually unravel to silence.”
― Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards
― Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards

“When we are young we squander time as though it were unlimited; When we grow older, then like beggars we wish for crumbs of remembrance...”
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“There's barely a hair's breadth
Between emergence and passage
So why misspend
The time in between?”
― The Bedevilment of Bertie Lunn
Between emergence and passage
So why misspend
The time in between?”
― The Bedevilment of Bertie Lunn
“In the time that man has been here there is one thing that all have seen and gazed upon in wonder. Luna.”
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