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Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
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- Tennessee Williams
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- Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1911 to 1983; Wikidata Q134262, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134262 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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