Jesse Andrews

My process is pretty messy, and there's a lot of creative destruction in it. When I set out to write something, I'll write some passages from it just to figure out who these characters are, how they talk. And I have a dim sense of what it's about and where it's going to go, but I know that's going to change, too.

American Novelist

Chris Claremont

For me that's the magic of the printed page - we don't have to pay attention to the passage of time and focus in on the realities of these characters at a specific age or at a specific time in their lives, and we can play with that to our hearts' content.

British Writer

John Irving

I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

Kim Novak

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

American Actress

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

English Artist

Dolly Parton

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

American Singer

Sydney Brenner

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

British Scientist

Lewis Tappan

They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.

American Businessman

Esther Williams

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

James Taylor

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

American Musician

Often used in academic settings where students analyze or interpret a specific excerpt.

Exam Context

When asked to read a passage, it means to speak the text out loud, not silently.

Reading Aloud

Refers to a covert or concealed way, often found in stories about adventures or mysteries.

Hidden Routes

Used to describe physical spaces that connect places, like hallways in buildings.

Spatial Terms

Metaphorically describes the movement of time, suggests something changing or fading.

Time's Path

Doesn't refer to a physical process but to the concept of time moving forward.

Not Literal

Refers to the act of moving through different areas, often used for long or significant trips.

Travel

Implies overcoming difficulties or barriers during the movement from one place to another.

Obstacles

Emphasizes obtaining the right to enter or move through a place, could be formal or informal.

Permission

Sometimes indicates a privilege or an exclusive right to enter a certain area or community.

Exclusive Access

 is perhaps the most dangerous passage of water in the world you're on there for four days non-stop rolling backwards and forwards so it's just this real sense of adventure as you're going across you come out of drake's passage and then all of a sudden you're coming down the peninsula past all these

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 will perish. Ultimately, with the passage of years, the survivors will increase in size, from that of a dinner plate at year one to that of a dinner table, in the case of one species at least, the leatherback, a decade or so later. With size comes some measure of protection.

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 by standard routes. This means they can usually only travel by land or sea, and may need to entrust their lives to smugglers to help them cross borders. Whereas some people seek safety with their families, others attempt passage alone and leave their loved ones behind

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 regular people could also reach the afterlife if they succeeded in the passage. Ani's epic journey begins with his death. His body is mummified by a team of priests who remove every organ except the heart, the seat of emotion, memory, and intelligence.

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 And unlike our clumsy way of breathing in and out through the same passage, dogs exhale through slits at the side of their nose, creating swirls of air that help draw in new odor molecules and allow odor concentration to build up over mulitple sniffs.

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 grow through special channels and passages. And over the course of development, a legion of osteoblasts reinforce the skeleton that protects our organs, allows us to move, produces blood cells and more. But this initial building process alone

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 into a single narrative. To recite these massive epics live, rhapsodes employed a steady meter, along with mnemonic devices, like repetition of memorized passages or set pieces. These included descriptions of scenery and lists of characters,

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 to be able to be with people through all the passages of life, to preach messages that would have an everyday meaning for folks, and in the African-American tradition, to be able to represent the community that I serve.

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 live in the modern world but they maintain ancient customs including one by which boys become men it's a rite of passage that starts with pain every summer boys are circumcised painted

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 their children every rainy season as a rivers as well and passage to school would literally become life-threatening

Passage

Exam Context

Reading Aloud

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