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We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

Robert Grudin
Time, Children, Real
Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

Robert Grudin
Time, Future, Waiting
Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space.

Robert Grudin
Time, Space, Shapes
Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge of our impoverishment in time.

Robert Grudin
Time, Details, Gauges
Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole, we must walk mentally around time, using a variety of approaches, a pandemonium of metaphor.

Robert Grudin
Time, Art, Students
Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

Robert Grudin
Faith, Time, Memories
Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

Robert Grudin
Time, Truth, Dresses
Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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