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“We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature.”

Thinking Writing Years Said Done Literature Late Years Ago Decided Rate Too Late Forty Verses Second Rate

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!”

“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”

Fall Found Waiting Perfect Late Down And Get Up Wicked Too Late Falling Down Found You

Book:Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel

“Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.”

Mind Ends Home Moving Dies Late Stones Flight Paris Too Late Unbearable Unbearable Lightness Of Being

Author:Milan Kundera

“It's never too late to fix things with people you love, Massie. Kendra said. That's true. William agreed.”

People Said Late Too Late Never Too Late

Author:Lisi Harrison

“Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a five I'll lay down the tracks Sandbag and hide January has April's showers And two and two always makes a five It's the devil's way now There is no way out You can SCREAM and you can shout It is too late now Because... You have not been Payin' attention! Payin' attention! Payin' attention! Payin' attention! You have not been paying attention!”

World Way Two Home Attention Forever Five Rights Late Devil Lays Track Pay Attention Too Late Dreamer Scream Showers April January

Author:Thom Yorke

“If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with.”

Ifs Want Body Spiritual Morning Late Creating Assuming Stuck Health Care Too Late Never Too Late Healthy Body Spiritual Health

Book:Perfect health: the complete mind body guide

Source: Perfect health: the complete mind body guide

“Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come back we will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand things, each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.”

Littles Together Sleep Walks Dying Hair Thousand Ten Late Too Late Wages Moonlight

Author:Galway Kinnell

“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.”

Ifs Knows Trying May Religion Moral Atheism Source Late Discovery Positive Atheism Too Late Moral Strength

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Nico strode forward. The enemy army fell back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did. Through the face guard of his skull-shaped helmet, he smiled. "Got your message. Is it too late to join the party?" "Son of Hades." Kronos spit on the ground. "Do you love death so much you wish to experience it?" "Your death," Nico said, "would be great for me." "I'm immortal, you fool! I have escaped Tartarus. You have no business here, and no chance to live." Nico drew his sword-three feet of wicked sharp Stygian iron, black as a nightmare. "I don't agree.”

“Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.”

Form Regret Late Guilt Useless Too Late

Book:Tempting Danger

Source: Tempting Danger

“Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!”

Knows Book Mother Trouble Late Too Late Quoting

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back”

People Past Limits Late Too Late

Book:The Rest of Her Life

Source: The Rest of Her Life

“...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.”

Important Ends Late Too Late Never Too Late Make Yourself Happy

Book:For You Mom, Finally

Source: For You Mom, Finally

“Growing up, I was utterly oblivious to the fact that Mom was teaching me all that. But I was instantly aware of her final lesson, which was hidden in her notes and leters. As I read them I began to understand that in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, Mom showed me that it is never too late to find out how to do it.”

Important Ends Facts Growing Up Growing Teaching Mom Lessons Late Notes Finals Too Late Oblivious Never Too Late Make Yourself Happy

Book:For You Mom, Finally

Source: For You Mom, Finally

“Oh no, hon we were too late. Tiger-boy done pissed down the wrong honey tree and got all the bees, or in this case, bears, going wild. (Fury)”

Done Boys Cases Tree Bears Late Too Late Honey Bees Tigers Fury

Book:Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?”

Knows Happens Certain Dies Responsibility Goes On Late Consequence Too Late Up To You

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Somtimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person's home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching something hot, something that warps you in drastic and probably irreversible ways you won't get to take stock of until its too late”

Way Feels Persons Home Lying Rooms Strange Shapes Late Hot Too Late Touching Melting Bending Drastic Irreversible Warp Strange Person

Book:Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

“I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.”

People Trying Heart Felt Realizing Hurt Dark Return My Heart Protect Late Shots Guilt Too Late Wounded Hurt Me Charlotte Wedges Splinters

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“Sometimes we don’t realize how destructive our creations are until it’s too late. And sometimes those creations we make turn on us and seek only to kill us even though we loved and succored them. (Apollo)”

Sometimes Turns Realizing Creation Late Too Late Destructive Apollo Turn-on

Book:One Silent Night

Source: One Silent Night

“I’m giving you that chance now. (Stryker) It’s too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived only to hear a kind word from your lips. But that ship sank under an assault of bitterness that no amount of charm or guile will recover. (Zephyra)”

Giving Kind Chance Century Amount Late Lips Ships Charm Too Late Bitterness Assault Kind Words Guile

Book:One Silent Night

Source: One Silent Night

“The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.”

People Knows Men World Has Beens Sound Hurt Cry Essentials Late Moved Tyranny Too Late Historian Impatience Wisest

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.”

People World Life Trying Wisdom Late Too Late

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

“There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.”

Action Choices Balance Late Scales Ruins Too Late Fragile Cosmic

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!”

Men Reason Adventure Honor Late Too Late Farewell Deliverance Hopes And Fears

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Measure me while I live - after it will be too late.”

Late Too Late

Book:Invitation to a beheading: a novel

Source: Invitation to a beheading: a novel

“That’s exactly what I’m talking about. That’s the evil that’s seducing you. The malevolent power that is crawling through your blood tempting you onto a treacherous path that will cost you everything you love and hold dear. You have to let that anger go before it’s too late. Vengeance always turns inward and it will consume you until nothing’s left but an empty hole that nothing can fill. (Ambrose)”

Turns Evil Left Talking Path Blood Cost Late Empty Dear Holes Too Late Inward Vengeance Seducing Tempting Crawling Treacherous Before It's Too Late

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space--that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.”

Way Bigs Left Space Behinds Worry Fit Late Supposed To Be Too Late Meant To Be Be You Desperation Left Behind Were Meant To Be Small Spaces

Book:A fine and private place: The last unicorn

Source: A fine and private place: The last unicorn

“I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I hate myself, bitterly it's too late yet while I feel better I still feel ephemeral and unreal and unable to straighten my thoughts or even really grieve, in fact I feel too stupid to be really bitter, in short I don't know what I'm doing and I'm being told what to do.”

Source: Desolation Angels

“Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that -- of just that.”

Understanding Late Miracle Too Late Understanding Everything

Book:Sabbath's Theater

Source: Sabbath's Theater

“Amos sipped his coffee. The faraway look on his face reminded me of my dad. “I don’t want to scare you.” “Too late.”

Want Looks Faces Dad Late My Dad Coffee Too Late Scare

Book:The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”

“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.”

World Changed Late Expectations Lays Spread Too Late Mist Risen Great Expectations

Book:British Classics: Great Expectations

Source: British Classics: Great Expectations

“Niten's eyes didn't move, but a trace of a smile curled his lips. "I do not need my eyes to tell me where I'm going." "I have no idea what that means," Josh said. "Is it like some sort of ninja trick?" Niten shot Josh a warning look. "Whatever you do, don't mention-" It was too late. In the backseat Aoife stirred. "Ninjas," she spat. "Why is everyone so obsessed with ninjas? They were never that good. And they were cowards, sneaking around in their black pajamas, stabbing their victims with poisoned darts. I hate ninjas-they have no honor.”

“I don't know. When I was born there was a nurse taking care of me." "What's the matter? Couldn't the nurse take care of herself?" "Sure she could. I just found that out too late.”

Knows Matter Care Found Born Late Take Care Too Late Nurse Take Care Of Me

Author:Groucho Marx

“It is never too late to be wise.”

Wise Late Too Late Being Wise Never Too Late

Book:The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Source: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

“This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.”

Saws Judging Cost Late Folly Too Late

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Daniel Defoe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Daniel Defoe (Illustrated)

“I knew I was too late—and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.”

Desire Failing Late Wings Glad Too Late New Moon Desire To Live

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?”

Late Too Late Cleverness

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“Will moved to object, but it was too late; Henry had already pressed the button. There was a blinding flare of light and a whooshing sound, and the room was plunged into blackness. Tessa gave a yelp of surprise, and Jem laughed softly. "Am I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.”

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.”

Problem Late Revelations Too Late Significance Exceed Comprehension

Book:The Darkness That Comes Before: Book 1 of the Prince of Nothing

Source: The Darkness That Comes Before: Book 1 of the Prince of Nothing

“My body Healed quickly. But the wound to my psyche was deep. Wide. First aid, too little, too late, left me hemorrhaging inside, the blood unstaunched by psychological bandage or love's healing magic. Eventually it scabbed over, a thick, ugly welt of memory. I work to conceal it, but no matter how hard I try, once in a while something makes me pick at it until the scarring bleeds. In my arms, Ashante cries, innocence ripped apart by circumstance. Bloodied by inhuman will. Time will prove a tourniquet. But she will always be at risk of infection. (124)”

Source: Fallout

“Too late Bella. Now, it's too late. Show me.”

Shows Late Too Late Show Me

Book:J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4

Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4

“Praying's not going to help. Too late for that, Jane...I gave you a chance to have it on your terms. Now we'll do this on mine”

Helping Term Chance Mines Praying Late Too Late Jane

Author:J.R. Ward

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.”

Soul Feelings Literature Half Gone Late My Soul Too Late Agony Persuasion Pierce

Book:The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“Be not sick too late, nor well too soon”

Wells Health Late Sick Wellness Sickness Too Late

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other people- the others- the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.”

People Ifs Trying Different Young Wonder One Day Late Wake Up Too Late Anonymity

Author:Douglas Coupland

“Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So don’t ever put off telling someone how you feel about them, don’t assume that they know, because they might not and it might be too late.”

Knows Feels Might Eye Right Now Late Assuming Too Late How You Feel Blink Blink Of An Eye

Book:You're the One that I don't want

Source: You're the One that I don't want

“So I'll wait for you... And I'll burn Will I ever see your sweet return? Oh, will I ever learn? Oh, Lover, you should've come over Cause it's not too late.”

Should Causes Waiting Sweet Return Lovers Late Too Late

Author:Jeff Buckley

“The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons.”

World Firsts Stills Games Enemy Blood Worst Mets Late Flesh Poison Too Late Tents

Author:Cornelia Funke

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