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Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all. -- William Shakespeare
I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. Ripeness is all. -- Maurice Sendak
Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. -- Joseph Heller
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air. -- Rudolfo Anaya
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. -- Jessamyn West
The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness. -- Nell Newman
There's a point of no return when you're cooking tomatoes. A little too much heat, a little too long in the pot, and you lose that sense of fresh ripeness that makes tomatoes so great. -- Geoffrey Zakarian
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. -- Mark Twain
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. -- Plutarch
October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month. -- Henry Ward Beecher
All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all. -- W. H. Auden
I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse. -- Henry David Thoreau
as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons. -- Gretel Ehrlich

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