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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who ...

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When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silen...

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When I started go-go dancing on tables for a living, I didn't want to tell my mom or my dad. I made ...

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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange...

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Daylight does not lend itself to terror: objects and people are plain to see; and we encounter there...

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Guy de MaupassantA Day in the Country and Other Stories

Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so b...

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Guy de MaupassantThe Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling ...

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The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-l...

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The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says,...

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The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of ni...

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There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who loo...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

All he could do was wait like this, patiently, until it grew light out and the birds awoke and began...

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Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night fr...

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Henry BestonThe Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

He liked however the open shutters; he opened everywhere those Mrs. Muldoon had closed, closing them...

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And the night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents ...

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And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day,Shall fold their tents ...

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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their ...

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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, ...

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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day!The frontier town and citadel of night!The watershed of Time,...

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, mor...

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Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but kn...

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He's looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look.

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gather...

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Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the su...

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Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his...

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People talk about nightfall, or night falling, or dusk falling, and it’s never seemed right to me. P...

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Hugh LaurieThe Gun Seller

From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps...

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Ian FlemingFrom Russia With Love

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

Watchman what of the night?

Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is o...

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Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road r...

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This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed ...

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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show...

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool...

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I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow i...

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The 'Night Train' has already been a crazy ride for me. We flew around making TV appearances and sta...

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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 moon looks upon many night flowers the night flowers see but one moon.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.

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Jean-Paul SartreThe Respectable Prostitute/Lucifer and the Lord/In Camera

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness...

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I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and b...

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And yet it seems so full of comfort and of strength, the night. In its great presence, our small sor...

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At this time in his life Zinkoff sees no difference between the stars in the sky and the stars in hi...

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Some nights, we were a city of two.

Sleep is an under-ocean dipped into each night.

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Jim MorrisonThe Lords and the New Creatures

I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake a...

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I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, 'I'm just t...

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I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the M...

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

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Trust me, there's not one night a week I'm not in a theater somewhere. I adore theater, and I go out...

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Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night.

Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying...

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The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled wit...

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Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night.

Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying...

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The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled wit...

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The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than ...

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John AshberySelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why li...

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... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlig...

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Later, I walked towards the dorm circle beside Alaska. The cicadas hummed their one-note song, just ...

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Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

The night is dark and I am far from home.

But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms...

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John KeatsThe Complete Poems

Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.

What hath night to do with sleep?

I always found in myself a dread of west and love of east. Where I ever got such an idea I cannot sa...

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Now Pilon knew it for a perfect night. A high fog covered the sky, and behind it, the moon shone so ...

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John SteinbeckTortilla Flat

No matter how cheerful and blameless the day’s activities have been, when you wake in the middle of ...

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We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely a...

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You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late ni...

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I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was be...

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Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o’clock in t...

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I realized I still had my eyes shut. I had shut them when I put my face to the screen, like I was sc...

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Something moved on the grounds down beneath my window — cast a long spider of shadow out across the ...

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in wh...

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I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had me...

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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that ...

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He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a f...

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We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and wen...

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You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that ...

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For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.

I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of nightCandles and lanterns are dancin...

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Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of...

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages ar...

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Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling.