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Low ceiling, stone walls, a dirt floor stamped with paw prints. I never go in without announcing mys...

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David SedarisDress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.

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David SedarisWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames

When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made...

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Translating the words on the door, he said, "Light from light." "Waste and void, waste and void. Dar...

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Holy men tell us life is a mystery.They embrace that concept happily.But some mysteries bite and bar...

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The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the mil...

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Dean KoontzThe Taking

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and ...

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Denis DiderotThoughts on the Interpretation of Nature and Other Philosophical Works

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meado...

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Character is what a man is in the dark.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think ...

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it lea...

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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark g...

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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster.

His wits have gone dark as his eyes

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes ...

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To you wives who are constantly complaining and see only the dark side of life, and feel that you ar...

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But of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hi...

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H. P. LovecraftH.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water ...

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Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of cour...

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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no li...

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We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our pas...

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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead o...

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I think to myself: I don't want to survive this oneI want to burn up in the wreckage

She lit my soul and inhaled deeplyFlicking my ashes occasionally.

I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

All I said was that I thought it was a judgement from God that Blyth had first lost his leg and then...

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Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more...

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... I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling ve...

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Master of the Dark Shadow. For I also, Niniel, had my darkness, in which dear things were lost; but ...

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?

Darkness is strong and so is Sin But surely God endures forever!

I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and...

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7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the o...

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The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.

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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