The present moment is nice but it does not last. L... -Bruce Catton

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.

Bruce Catton , Historian
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Bruce Catton was an American historian and journalist known for his books on the American Civil War, including the "Centennial History of the Civil War" trilogy.

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I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the...
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web....
Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning....
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and yo...
We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up...
We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing ac...
In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continu...
We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then th...
The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to....
I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defea...