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• This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, Should Have, Secret

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.19, Penguin

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• As far as we know, everyone’s right— Strigoi don’t want to hang out in Palm Springs.” Eddie became about one percent less tense.

  Richelle Mead

  Spring, Want, Palms

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• Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.

  John Green

  Sorry, Love You, Past

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.114, Penguin

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• Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Syntax, Coherence

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• If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.

  Craig Johnson

  Running, Moving, School

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• In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

  Adrienne Rich

  America, United States, Danger

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Poemas, 1963-2000”, p.70, Editorial Renacimiento

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• Hasta el hombre más sabio se pone tenso
  Con cierta violencia
  Antes de cumplir su destino
  Conocer su trabajo o elegir a su pareja.
  
  Poeta y escultor, haced el trabajo,
  Ni dejéis que el pintor modesto eluda

  William Butler Yeats

  Sabiduría, Arte, Destino

  William Butler Yeats (1997). "The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition", p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Twitter has allowed the conversation to broaden and become more inclusive. At times, the conversation is really tense but that's because we're talking about really important issues. It's not going to be easy but at least the conversations are happening.

  Roxane Gay

  Talking, Issues, Important

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

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• Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.

  Rick Pitino

  Motivational, Past, Anxiety

  Rick Pitino (1997). "Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life" (El éxito es una elección: diez pasos para triunfar en los negocios y en la vida), Broadway.

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• No me veo a mi mismo desde el pasado, presente o futuro, me gusta pensar en el mundo desde mi propio punto de vista personal en cualquier momento que siento que se me transmite en conjunción con mi bienestar para crecer progresivamente con éxito financieramente, así como mentalmente.

  Riff Raff

  Past, Thinking, Views

  Fuente: larryvillechronicles.blogspot.com

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• El tiempo en China no es tan inmediato como en América. Aquí encuentro que el rápido paso de nuestros pocos años terrenales se acepta con la misma naturalidad que la caída de las flores y las hojas. ... Oigo y hablo una lengua en la que la gramática no tiene tiempo. Tanto eruditos como analfabetos, en el habla cotidiana, cuentan un acontecimiento de hace siglos tan casualmente como un incidente de la hora. Sólo a medida que mis conocimientos se han ido acumulando he sido capaz de saber si algo relacionado ocurrió justo entonces o en alguna dinastía pasada.

  Nora Waln

  Tiempo, Flor, Otoño

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• Entre la lluvia y las luces vi la figura 5 en dorado sobre un camión de bomberos rojo moviéndose tenso sin hacer caso a los gong clangs aullidos de sirena y ruedas retumbando a través de la oscura ciudad.

  William Carlos Williams

  Mudanza, Lluvia, Oscuridad

  William Carlos Williams (1991). "The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams", p.174, New Directions Publishing.

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• It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.

  Joyce Appleby

  Passion, Past, Diversity

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• My last defense / Is the present tense.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Live In The Moment, Lasts, Defense

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.81, Library of America

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• the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest.

  David Thorne

  Men, Feet, Complaining

  David Thorne (2011). “The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius”, p.321, Penguin

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• I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

  Ed Weeks

  Stressed, Littles, Way

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• There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Food, Sight, White

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, Simon and Schuster

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• The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.

  Katt Williams

  Past, Fans, Happens

  "Katt Williams: Scary, Crazy or Genius?". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. April 11, 2013.

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• Una nación realmente inteligente podría mantenerse unida por fuerzas mucho más fuertes que las derivadas de los instintos puramente gregarios. Una nación no tiene por qué ser una turba de esclavos, aferrados unos a otros por el miedo, y en su mayor parte incapaces de autogobernarse, y mendigando ser dirigidos; sino que podría consistir en hombres vigorosos y autosuficientes, unidos entre sí por innumerables lazos, en una organización fuerte, tensa y elástica.

  Francis Galton

  Strong, Intelligent, Men

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• A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Natural, New Yorkers, Native

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• The actor's tense, he's being taped and things are not falling naturally. That's what I hate about Boadway. I feel like I'm giving a whole lot for nothing. I like to capture things and hold them there and share them with the whole world.

  Michael Jackson

  Hate, Fall, Giving

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Casi por definición, el secularismo no puede ser un futuro: es una cultura de tiempo presente que, con el tiempo, desconecta a una sociedad de un propósito intergeneracional. Por eso no hay ejemplos de civilizaciones ateas sostenidas. El "humanismo ateo" se convirtió en inhumanismo en manos de los fascistas y los comunistas y, en su forma menos maligna en la Unión Europea actual, en una especie de deshumanismo en el que una cultura de tiempo presente se divierte hasta la extinción. La cultura europea poscristiana ya es poscultural y, con el aumento de la población musulmana, pronto será poseuropea.

  Mark Steyn

  Christian, Atheist, Hands

  "America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It". Book by Mark Steyn, 2006.

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• El estado del teatro es siempre una medida precisa de la salud cultural de una nación. Una obra siempre existe en tiempo presente (si es valiosa), y su música -su ruido especial- siempre es contemporánea. La función más valiosa del teatro como forma de arte es decirnos quiénes somos, y la salud del teatro viene determinada por cuánto de eso queremos saber.

  Edward Albee

  Art, Play, Special

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.63, Da Capo Press

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• A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

  Joseph Addison

  Ruins, Mood, Lending

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• The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Drinking, Sleep, Home

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.33, Del Rey

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