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We're here, We're queer. 1970 Get used to it.

-Anonymous
  Motto of the homosexual liberation movement, Queer Nation, which rejected use of the term'gay'. Quoted in the New York Times, 6  Apr.

The L called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I. And heranunto Eli, and said,Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORD1 Samuel 3:4^5.

Then said I,Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the L of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my 102 mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard thevoiceoftheLord,saying,Whomshall Isend, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 6:5^8.

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.5.

The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

-John Robert Fowles
  The Ebony Tower,'Poor Koko'.

Where is here?

- Northrop Frye
'Haunted by Lack of Ghosts', in David Staines (ed)  TheCanadian Imagination (1977).

Here we are again!

-Joseph Grimaldi
c.1800  His customary greeting to the audience on making his entrance as Clown, later adopted as a catchphrase by clowns everywhere.

  Never let success hide its emptiness from you; achievement its nothingness; toil its desolation. Keep alivetheincentivetopushonfurther, that pain inthesoul that drives us beyond ourselves. Do not look back, and do not dream about the future either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny are here and now.

- Dag HjalmarAgne Carl Hammarskjo«  ld
Va«  gmarken (translated by L Sjsy«  berg and W H  Auden as Markings,1964).

So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!

- Henry James
Quoted in Edith Wharton  A Backward Glance (1934), ch.14, section 3.  According to Wharton, these were  James's last words.

From Here to Eternity.

-James Jones
  Title of novel.

Life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.

- Graham Swift
  Waterland, ch.8.