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The same costume will be Indecent 10 years before its time, Shameless 5 years before its time, Outré (daring) 1 year before its time, Smart, Dowdy 1 year after its time, Hideous 10 years after its time, Ridiculous 20 years after its time, Amusing 30 years after its time, Quaint 50 years after its time, Charming 70 years after its time, Romantic 100 years after its time, Beautiful 150 years after its time.
(James Laver (1899-1975), British art critic, author. Taste and Fashion, ch. 18 (1937).
"The erogenous zone," Laver wrote, "is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.")
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No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
(James Baldwin (1924-1987), U.S. author. (First published 1976). "The Devil Finds Work," sect. 1, The Price Of The Ticket (1985).)
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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
(Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), Italian author, playwright. Maurizio, in The Pleasure of Honesty, act 1.)
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Time that is moved by little fidget wheels
Is not my Time,
(Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971), Australian poet, journalist. Five Bells (l. 1-2). . .
Poetry in Australia, Vols. I-II. Vol. I: From the Ballads to Brennan, T. Inglis Moore, comp.; Vol. II: Modern Australian Verse, Douglas Stewart, comp. (1965) University of California Press.)
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Play for young children is not recreation activity,... It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity.... Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met.
(James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century), U.S. child development specialist, author. Teaching the Child Under Six, ch. 4 (1968).)
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Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. Burnt Norton (Four Quartets). . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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In time the strong and stately turrets fall,
In time the rose and silver lilies die,
In time the monarchs captive are, and thrall,
In time the sea and rivers are made dry;
The hardest flint in time doth melt asunder;
Still living fame in time doth fade away;
The mountains proud we see in time come under;
And earth, for age, we see in time decay.
The sun in time forgets for to retire
From out the east where he was wont to rise;
The basest thoughts we see in time aspire,
And greedy minds in time do wealth despise.
Thus all, sweet Fair, in time must have an end,
Except thy beauty, virtues, and thy friend.
(Giles Fletcher, The Elder (c.1549-1611), British writer, diplomat. Licia (l. 14-15). . .
Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press.)
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all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
"O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. As I Walked Out One Evening (l. 21-24). . .
Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.)
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Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. Four Quartets (1942). "Burnt Norton," pt. 1 (1936).)
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... the present
A time traditionally soured,
A time unrecommended by event.
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Triple Time.")
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