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so insightful...

posted 12 years ago by PenTheater
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“When I was a child I tried to cup water in my hand, and you know, no matter how close my fingers seemed, water just slipped through, and time is like that, no matter how much we try to capture it, it always gets away. And as we get older we realize how precious time is, and how none of it should be wasted,…….” yet someday, many people will be sitting around their homes and watching all this over and over on their DVD’s…..

[–] dijomaja-382-516639 12 years ago

'“When I was a child I tried to cup water in my hand, and you know, no matter how close my fingers seemed, water just slipped through, and time is like that, no matter how much we try to capture it, it always gets away. And as we get older we realize how precious time is, and how none of it should be wasted,…….” yet someday, many people will be sitting around their homes and watching all this over and over on their DVD’s….. '

...and, like listening to a favorite song, it will be time well spent.

[–] k-man-3 11 years ago

Maurice said this right?
I think the clock episode?

[–] darryl-tahirali 11 years ago

Maurice said this right?
I think the clock episode? - k-man-3

Right episode but the wrong character.

In "Nothing's Perfect," after Maurice has his argument with Rolf regarding the clock's accuracy, he goes to the Brick. It is there that Holling imparts his rustic insight into the nature and value of time. Probably that is what inspired Maurice subsequently to implore Rolf not to take back the clock.

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