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I do see it as forming a continuum with the earlier books. It shares some of the same themes, in particular that of the friendship between a gay man and a straight man.

Quote by Michael Chabon about friendship, books, man

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about events, memory, children, past, man

My wife is healthy, she's in the prime of her life and you think that it happens to other people but it happens to everyone and at some point in everyone's life they're going to have to deal with something... some earlier than later and I promise...

Quote by Brett Favre about tragedy, promise, wife, life, people

But, you know, those three words - I need help. If only...

But, you know, those three words - I need help. If only I'd said them earlier.

Quote by Elton John about help, need

If you seem to catch the last bus of the day, it left two...

If you seem to catch the last bus of the day, it left two minutes earlier.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars, day

The later you let a child stay up at night, the earlier...

The later you let a child stay up at night, the earlier he will wake up in the morning.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about night, children

The scheduled return time of any trip will be one hour...

The scheduled return time of any trip will be one hour earlier than the actual return.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about time

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, ...

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

Quote by Ken Olsen about computers, literature, affair

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.

Quote by Brian De Palma about time, comedy, character, good, good luck

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion, evolution, need

Few passages of history are more striking than those...

Few passages of history are more striking than those which record the efforts of the earlier French Jesuits to convert the Indians.

Quote by Francis Parkman about history

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

Quote by Walter Pater about family, poetry, common sense, sense, things

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

Quote by Piper Perabo about history

“You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid…. You refuse...

Quote by Martin Luther King Jr. about fight, old, olderness, principle, chance, home, house, death, spirit, day

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