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And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and yo...

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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights whi...

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You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forev...

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Peter S. BeagleA Fine and Private Place

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

Neither father nor son moved, but stayed face to face for hours and hours, neither looking away nor ...

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It was the Kojagar full moon, and I was slowly pacing the riverside conversing with myself. It could...

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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbel...

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and prese...

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I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the wor...

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Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep ...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in...

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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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There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.

Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with thei...

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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely da...

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My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming ho...

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Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor th...

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A regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who's actually wearing women's panties unde...

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I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for ...

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Down the hill I went, and then,I forgot the ways of men,For night-scents, heady and damp and coolWak...

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Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first ...

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Twilight was laying claim to the cité, and the sky was a deepening shade of lavender, spangled with ...

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Outside, the sky was clear, stars gleaming in its ebony vastness like celestial fireflies. It was bi...

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I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Fi...

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The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my ...

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The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start r...

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I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized...

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I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It...

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I liked comedy as a kid. When I was a kid, I'd go to sleep to, like, Bill Cosby albums every night. ...

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The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin t...

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Black as night and as beautiful as forever.

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Stephen KingEverything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

And all of the late, late-night talks, when you're not stoned, but you're so tired you might as well...

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My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because h...

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Light jumping out of window is staring the dark from afar.

The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.

I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the poi...

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The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of starsLetting ...

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The lamp hummed:'Regard the moon,La lune ne garde aucune rancune,She winks a feeble eye,She smiles i...

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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night...

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Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats...

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There are the people of the day, and the creatures of the night. And it's important to remember that...

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Although it was only six o'clock, the night was already dark. The fog, made thicker by its proximity...

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Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a h...

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You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat i...

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Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usual...

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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlightA sly grin and a bowl full of stars

And that night he couldn't sleep, but lay looking out at the light June night which was full of lone...

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Tove JanssonFinn Family Moomintroll

Nothing can be as peaceful and endless as a long winter darkness, going on and on, like living in a ...

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I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same...

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Stealthily the stars slid forward into nothingness.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel s...

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Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God's loveShall shine above,Making all bright,G...

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Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb bac...

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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

I resign, the evening seemed to say, as it paled and faded above the battlements and prominences, mo...

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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.

Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night!Night of south winds! Night...

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To all to each a fair good night And pleasing dreams and slumbers light.

You never get tired of looking at the stars

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Warren EllisThe Planetary Omnibus

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing...

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Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just beca...

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The bleak autumn wind was still blowing, and the solemn, surging moan of it in the wood was dreary a...

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Wilkie CollinsReign of Terror Volume 2: Great Victorian Horror Stories

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to...

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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

Every day he thought would last forever, and the night forever, and the dawn drag eternally another ...

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The garden is a miraculous place, and anything can happen on a beautiful moonlit night.

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William JoyceThe Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs

The night was blustery and raw, with a chill wet wind blowing down the avenues, and when Rose and I ...

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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense...

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Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Dragon: Fifteen Stories

White-crested waves crash on the shore. The masts sway violently, every which way. In the gray sky t...

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Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Dragon: Fifteen Stories

On the spur of the moment she decided to go and view the blossoms by herself in the dark night. It w...

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Again and again, the cicada’s untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on th...

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Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky ...

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Yukio MishimaThe Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others be...

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They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from wh...

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The whole of Paris was lit up. The tiny dancing flames had bespangled the sea of darkness from end t...

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Others, I am not the first,Have willed more mischief than they durst:If in the breathless night I to...

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Lie you easy, dream you light,And sleep you fast for aye;And luckier may you find the nightThan ever...

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Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest?'Tis that every mother's sonTravail...

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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Stu...

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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this smal...

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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you a...

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Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, ...

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Still as On windless nights The moon-cast shadows are, So still will be my heart when I Am dead.

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Adelaide CrapseyVerse by Adelaide Crapsey

With night's Dim veil and blue I will cover my eyes, I will bind close my eyes that are So weary.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all...

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On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere darkened by the shadow ...

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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doub...

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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doub...

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Love in a night shall live and die,Love in a day shall wing and fly;Love in the Spring shall last an...

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Aleister CrowleyWhite Stains & the Nameless Novel: Flowers of Eros and Evil

The mirror's light sparks in the eyes,And horrified, my lids drawn tight,I step back to that realm o...

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Alexander BlokThe Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

The house seemed so different at night. Everything was in its correct place, of course, but somehow ...

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