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• I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Mother, Thinking, Forgiving

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• This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in their minds, and in the glowing crystal memory cells they all carry in the palms of their hands: a great idea of a second city, lit with life and love, reasonable drink prices at cool bars, and, of course, blocks and blocks of bright and devastating fire.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Life And Love, Block

  John Hodgman (2012). “The Areas of My Expertise”, p.140, Penguin

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• I know a man who, when he saw a woman of striking beauty, praised the Creator for her. The sight of her lit within him the love of God.

  John Climacus

  Beauty, Christian, Men

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• Extroverts want us to have fun, because they assume we want what they want. And sometimes we do. But "fun" itself is a "bright" word, the kind of word that comes with flashing lights and an exclamation point! One of Merriam-Webster's definitions of "fun" is "violent or excited activity or argument." The very word makes me want to sit in a dimly lit room with lots of pillows-by myself.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Fun, Light, Exclamation Points

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• My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Darkness, Intelligence

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• I run down to meet Floriana who is breathless from her hike. She stops in the road, the last light at her back. Prickles of rain cling to her unkerchiefed, loosened hair, capturing in her the flickering russet frame of it. Topaz almonds are her eyes, lit tonight from some new, old place, from some exquisitely secret oubliette, which she must often forget she possesses. We talk for a minute and Barlozzo passes us by like a boy too shy to speak to two girls at once.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Girl, Running, Rain

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• Phury lit a blunt and eyed the sixteen cans of Aqua Net that were lined up on Butch and V's coffee table. "What's doing with the hair spray? You boys going drag on us?" Butch held up the lenght of PVC pipe he was punching a hole in. "Potato launcher, my man. Big fun." "Excuse me ?" "Didn't you ever go to summer camp ?" "Basket weaving and woodcarving are for humans. No offense, but we have better things to teach our youngs.

  J.R. Ward

  Summer, Fun, Coffee

  J. R. Ward (2011). “Lover Awakened: Number 3 in series”, p.246, Hachette UK

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• I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mistake, Garden, Tree

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.718, GENERAL PRESS

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• The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark's underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the skin of his arms and hands, with its sickly light, making him long for a mirror in which to study his face. Surely he'd be able to see the bones beneath the meat; the skull gleaming the way his teeth gleamed when he smiled. After all, wasn't that what a smile said? Hello, world, this is the way I'll look when the wet parts are rotted.

  Clive Barker

  Wall, Moon, Mirrors

  "The Great and Secret Show". Book by Clive Barker, August, 1989.

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• The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart….. I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house….. But the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house; I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Heart, Agony

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”

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• Tavi looked wildly around the courtyard, and when his gaze flicked toward them, his face lit witha ferocious smile. "Uncle Bernard! Uncle Bernard!" he shouted, pointing at Doroga. "He followed me home! Can we keep him?

  Jim Butcher

  Uncles, Home, Faces

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Furies Of Calderon: The Codex Alera: Book One”, p.370, Hachette UK

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• The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.

  Louis Aragon

  Marine, Men, Swings

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• In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you.

  Hardy Kruger

  Heart, Cathedrals, Candle

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• Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

  Walter Lord

  Birthday, Cake, Sagging

  Walter Lord (2012). “A Night to Remember”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.

  Winston Churchill

  Fire, United States, Politics

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• Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.

  Blake Shelton

  Kids, Voice, Lucky

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• With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.

  Marcia Cross

  Beach, White, Hair

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• The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most emphatically is not and never will be is a scruffy, ill-lit, fumed-oak drill hall serving as a temporary soap box for political propaganda.

  Noel Coward

  Political, House, Theatre

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• The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle’s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The Sweet Girl slips sideways around the philosopher to examine the lives of girls and women when we were not yet human.

  Marina Endicott

  Girl, Daughter, Sweet

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• But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.

  David Foster Wallace

  Meaningful, Stars, Compassion

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.

  Jack Irons

  Best Friend, Good Friend, Together

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• If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Smoking, Littles, Quitting

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.178, Penguin

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• At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were habituated to, lit by stained glass windows, was literally awe-inspiring. Today, we're not as impressed by big buildings, so we have to go to very large mountains to experience that 'diminutive effect.'

  Michael Persinger

  Dark, Glasses, Space

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• One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Movie, Artist, World

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• Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Looks, Film

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