271 Quotes About Too-late

  • Author Francis Quarles
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    In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is.

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  • Author Gregory David Roberts
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    The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.

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  • Author Jean Rhys
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    I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).

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  • Author Philip Roth
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    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.

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