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• One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under my door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed.

  John Fante

  Night, Light, Doors

  John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.411, Canongate Books

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• Love? I need a lot of love." Of course you do. Everyone does. It's funny that we never say it. It's OK to scream, 'I'm starving' in public if you are hungry; it's OK to make a fuss and say, 'I'm so sleepy', if you are tired; but somehow we cannot say, 'I need some more love.' Why can't we say it? It's just as basic a need." - ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 36 pages 293-4

  Chetan Bhagat

  Tired, Night, Doe

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• Anyone can have a relationship but if you're dating a woman who's so crazy in bed that if you aren't wearing your Kevlar one night you might never see daylight again... that's exciting.

  Christopher Titus

  Crazy, Night, Dating

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor had they been since he had made the error of looking into his soul. It had indeed been an error. It had been late one night-- of course. It had been a difficult day-- of course. There had been soulful music playing on the ship's sound system-- of course. And he had, of course, been slightly drunk. In other words, all the usual conditions that bring on a bout of soul searching had applied, but it had, nevertheless, clearly been an error.

  Douglas Adams

  Night, Errors, Light

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• You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Night, Lions, Eternity

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.604, Hamilton Books

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• One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Ambition, Night

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Maybe one night I’ll be asleep and I’ll feel a hand like a dove on my cheekbone and feel her breath cool like peppermints and when I open my eyes my mom will be there like an angle, saying in the softest voice, When you are born it is like a long, long dream. Don’t try to wake up. Just go along until it is over. Don’t be afraid. You may not know it all the time but I am with you. I am with you.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Mom, Dream, Eye

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• In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

  Mother Teresa

  Depression, Night, Light

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• Like I said, some people think it’s weird that my best friend is a girl. Sometimes I think it’s weird, too. Mostly people assume that we’re boyfriend and girlfriend, which I guess we could be. But that just seems too teen-movie, if you know what I mean. A boy and girl are best friends, neither of them dates anyone else, and then one night they look at each other and—bang—they realize they’ve been in love with each other the whole time. Everyone’s happy and they go to the big dance together.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Girl, Mean, Boys

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• That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?

  David Levithan

  Night, Doe, Ends

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• I'm one of those people who was meant to have a very ordinary life. I have no special talent, no great beauty, nothing that distinguishes me from a hundred, thousand other girls. But I can't go through an entire lifetime without at least one night of magic.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Girl, Night, People

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• We talked--recent history only--and Lucas relayed the story of how Francis came to be his roommate. "He showed up at the door one night, demanding to be let in. Napped on the sofa for an hour, then demanded to be let out. It turned into a nightly ritual, with him staying longer and longer, until at some point I realized he'd moved in. He's basically the most brazen squatter ever.

  Tammara Webber

  Night, Doors, Stories

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• I met Elvis in your woods one night,” Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. “I knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told him I was a dog person, myself.

  Charlaine Harris

  Dog, Cat, Night

  Charlaine Harris (2011). “Dead Reckoning: A True Blood Novel”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• I tagged a first-timer one night at fight club. That Saturday night, a young guy with an angel’s face came to his first fight club, and I tagged him for a fight. That’s the rule. If it’s your first night in fight club, you have to fight. I knew that so I tagged him because the insomnia was on again, and I was in a mood to destroy something beautiful.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, Angel, Fighting

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.122, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Most of the time one night blends into the next and weeks blend into weeks and months into other months. And sooner or later we all die. But at the beginning of the night anything’s possible.

  Lauren Oliver

  Night, Next, Months

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.28, HarperCollins

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• You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Taken, Night, Attached To Someone

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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• One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.

  George R. R. Martin

  Night, Dragons, Jars

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.790, Bantam

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• I don't want only one night. I want all the nights. I want all of you, forever.

  Amanda Hocking

  Night, Forever, Want

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.511, Pan Macmillan

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• I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in tears yet again over the same old repetition of sorrowful thoughts, 'Is there ANYTHING about this scene you can change, Liz?' And all I could think to do was stand up, whle still sobbing, and try to balance on one foot in the middle of the living room. Just to prove that - while I couldn't stop the tears or change my dismal interior dialogue - I was not yet totally out of control: at least I could cry hysterically while balanced on one foot.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Night, Feet

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

  Wayne Newton

  Inspiration, Hero, Night

  Wayne Newton, Dick Maurice (1991). “Once Before I Go”, Avon Books

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• I'm touched, Rixon. A bomb. How elaborate. Why didn't you keep things simple and just march inside my bedroom one night and put a bullet between my eyes?" Nora, Crescendo

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Simple, Night

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Silly, Blow, Night

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book (Complete Edition with the Original Illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling): Classic of children's literature from one of the most popular writers in England, known for Kim, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Stalky & Co, Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three”, p.16, e-artnow

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• Undertow" "I set out one night When the tide was low There were signs in the sky But I did not know I'd be caught in the grip Of the undertow Ditched on a beach Where the sea hates to go With a child in my arms And a chill in my soul And my heart the shape Of a begging bowl

  Leonard Cohen

  Beach, Children, Hate

  Song: Undertow, Album: Dear Heather, 2004

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• Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.

  Holly Black

  Mom, Night, Forbidden Love

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Philadelphia, wonderful town, spent a week there one night

  W. C. Fields

  Night, Philadelphia, Towns

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