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  • The Gulf War was like teenage sex.We got in too soon and we got out too soon.

    -Tom (Thomas) Harkin
      Quoted in the Independent on Sunday, 29 Sep.

  • Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, belove'  d Night Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon!

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
      'To Night'.

  • I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest, where all must lose Their way, however straight Or winding, soon or late; They cannot choose.

    - (Philip) Edward Thomas
      'Lights Out'.

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