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  1. Alain de Botton _ The Pleasures and Sorrows of

    Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.
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  2. Daphne du Maurier _ Don't Look Now and Other

    It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.
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  3. Zadie Smith _ White Teeth

    By Allah, how _thankful_ he is {_yes, madam, one moment, madam_}, how _gladdened_ by the thought that Magid, Magid at least, will, in a matter of four hours, be flying east from this place and its demands, its constant cravings, this place where there exists neither patience nor pity, where the people want what they want _now_, right now {_We've been waiting twenty minutes for the vegetables_}, expecting their lovers, their children, their friends, and even their gods to arrive at little cost and in little time, just as table ten expect their tandoori prawns. . . .
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  4. Ivo Andrić _ The Bridge on the Drina

    Men who do not work themselves and who undertake nothing in their lives easily loose patience and fall into error when judging the work of others.
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  5. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No Ordinary Time: Franklin and

    The habit of mobility had become ingrained.
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  6. Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

    Another one is cleaning up tool that have been used and not put away and are cluttering up the place. This is a good one because one of the first warning signs of impatience is frustration at not being able to lay your hand on the tool you need right away. If you just stop and put tools away neatly you will both find the tool and also scale down your impatience without wasting time or endangering the work.
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  7. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!
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  8. William Shakespeare _ Much Ado About Nothing

    Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
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