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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional...

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Something draws you... An impatience with your own ignorance.

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force ...

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Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future...

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W. H. AudenThe Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose

By Allah, how _thankful_ he is (_yes, madam, one moment, madam_), how _gladdened_ by the thought tha...

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who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched o...

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Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long!

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, t...

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Daphne du MaurierDon't Look Now and Other Stories

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential thi...

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Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential thi...

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden...

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Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribu...

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