| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 45253 |
| QUOTATION: | Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time—weeks, months, years, decades even. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Helen Prejean (b. 1940), U.S. nun and activist against the death penalty. Dead Man Walking, ch. 4 (1993).
Acting as spiritual advisor to a prison inmate scheduled for execution, Prejean ruminates as the time draws near. |
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