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You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything s...

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Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we'v...

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There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

The dead pull the living down.

The dead pull the living down.

I love those dark moments in Peanuts. I love that they're in there, that Charles Schulz put the sad ...

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Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer...

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If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.

This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and ...

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People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see t...

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There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone...

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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance wh...

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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men ...

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The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical mons...

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Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing ...

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of ru...

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One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. T...

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Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

Fear can cause blindness, said the girl with dark glasses, Never a truer word, that could not be tru...

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Light doesn’t always keep the dark things away,” Nyx said.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a stor...

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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imaginat...

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Perfect, complete, needing nothing, simply all there was, was the dark.

Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in th...

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Gansey clucked at his bedraggled reflection in the dark-framed mirror hanging in the front hallway. ...

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Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we tu...

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Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -The water below is as dark as the grave,And maybe yo...

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Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me t...

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My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more be...

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Marilyn MansonThe Long Hard Road Out of Hell

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast pr...

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And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us...

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Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and ...

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He whom the gods love dies young.

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MenanderMenander: The Plays and Fragments

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda...

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With any luck, Heaven itself will resemble a vast used bookstore, with a really good cafe in one cor...

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The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever...

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This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others ...

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Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto ...

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Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

I'm not much of a challenge here in the dark.

How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline."I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear i...

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He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone...

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Nelson AlgrenThe Man With the Golden Arm

I was on tour with Little Dragon with the Gorillaz. She's got an amazing voice and is a lovely girl....

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The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

The Nuru men, and their women, had done what they did for more than torture and shame. They wanted t...

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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggerati...

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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our l...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light,what secret k...

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By night, beloved, tie your heart to mineand let them both in dreams defeat the darkness

My ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold,my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on your fo...

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Dark is the world’s night without you my love,

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Pablo NerudaThen Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be ...

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Patrick RothfussThe Wise Man's Fear

I'm sorry, she thought. But she said nothing. I can't save you or anybody else from being dark. She ...

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Philip K. DickThe Man in the High Castle

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it ou...

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When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.

Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fe...

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I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told...

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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and t...

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Dad, will they ever come back?""No. And yes." Dad tucked away his harmonica. "No not them. But yes, ...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But one strang...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes & A Sound of Thunder

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . . Then he said, "Let there be light." Whi...

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It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better ...

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way o...

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When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was...

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All men needed to hear their stories told. He was a man, but if he died without telling the story he...

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Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange.

These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to...

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Good be- gets bad, something lost leads to found...

Being on the side of the Light is much tougher than being on the side of the Dark...

You're a Dark One," said Anton. "All you see in everything is evil, treachery, trickery.""All I do i...

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The baby batScreamed out in fright,'Turn on the dark,I'm afraid of the light.

Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.

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Sigmund FreudNew Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Your diet must be about fifty-fifty, carrots and locoweed," Annie said softly.He froze."I can't figu...

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Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: "Deh moo...

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Stephen CraneMaggie: A Girl of the Streets

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of...

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I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heave...

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Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn on...

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Quiet people have the loudest minds.

All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs...

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I want to make sure I remember what real ugly is. I might want to tell my grandchildren someday.

My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.'I know that. It'...

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Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting wa...

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Stephen KingThe Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

The trap had a ghastly perfection

The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the goo...

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Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.