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• Sometimes at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together. Then the morning comes, the wavering grey turns to gold, there is stirring within me as the sleepers awake, and he softly departs.

  Kamala Markandaya

  Morning, Husband, Thinking

  Kamala Markandaya (1954). “Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel”

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• Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Morning, Names

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

  Tracy Chapman

  Morning, Writing, Late

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• For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.

  Loren Eiseley

  Loneliness, Years, Wind

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.125, Vintage

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• Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dream, Loneliness, Lying

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.162, Vintage

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• To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Stars, Thinking, World

  Cecil Rhodes (1902). “The last will and testament of Cecil John Rhodes: with elucidatory notes to which are added some chapters describing the political and religious ideas of the testator”

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• Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live

  Geraldo Rivera

  Literature, Hitting, Saturday

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• Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It's the sense I have that some of those points of light are the home stars of beings not so different from us, daily cares and all, who look across space with wonder, just as we do.

  Frank Drake

  Stars, Lying, Home

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• Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

  Justin Cronin

  Way, My Friends

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• The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  World, Jaguars, Quarks

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• Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

  George MacDonald

  Life, Work, Expectations

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.9045, e-artnow

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• I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey man, why don't you play some of your own stuff.' So, I finally did, because I had copied all his solos.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, Men, Play

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• I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.

  Duke Ellington

  Kings, Son, Guy

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• Moonless winter night-
  a billow of rising fog
  hides the distant pines

  Lenard Moore

  Winter, Fog, Rising

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• No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death!

  H. G. Wells

  Daughter, Morning, Quiet People

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.2393, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Another Day, Aviation, Flight

  "Solar-powered plane lands safely after 26-hour flight". www.bbc.com. July 8, 2010.

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• A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

  Homer

  Leadership, Sleep, Responsibility

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• The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

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• Oft in the silence of the night,
  When the lonely moon rides high,
  When wintry winds are whistling,
  And we hear the owl's shrill cry,
  In the quiet, dusky chamber,
  By the flickering firelight,
  Rising up between two sleepers,
  Comes a spirit all in white.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Inspirational, Life, Lonely

  Louisa May Alcott (2001). “My Little Friend: And Other Stories”

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• Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?

  Amy Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Self Respect, Said, Accounts

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• Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

  Ally Condie

  Life, Way, Should

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.12, Penguin

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• The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind.

  Barry Diller

  Two, People, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. I’m here for two days in New York; I leave in the morning early. I come back for Anna Wintour’s party at the Met, then again at the end of May for a prize I get from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Morning, New York, Party

  "Karl Lagerfeld, Rock Star" by Christopher, www.businessinsider.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Haven't you heard? I sleep every night in the deep freezer!

  Donatella Versace

  Sleep, Heard, Havens

  "Donatella Versace: 'How do I keep young? I sleep every night in the freezer!'" by Lisa Armstrong, fashion.telegraph.co.uk. June 29, 2012.

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