"Everything takes longer than it takes" (1996?)

[Marc Sacks]

>From Jonathan Lighter:
> Sometime between 1968 and 1973 an older friend advised me that "Things
> take longer than they do."
>

In the same vein:

"People do what they do all the time all the time" (my invention, when in
college; it seemed profound at the time) and "I feel more like I do now
than I did yesterday" (a personal favorite; I don't know its origin).

Marc Sacks
msacks at theworld.com

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