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- Nov 07, 2020
Night Quotes
What the night reveals.
These night quotes range from describing an empty venue as lifeless after dark, to recalling an awkward formal evening cut short by injury. Another notes the unequal treatment people can face late at night depending on circumstance. Related reflections continue in our Day quotes.
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- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the only place open all night. Truman Capote in the frozen foods. Andy Warhol over in vegetables.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting dressed was always the best part of every night.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember one night, my parents were out at a function of some kind and I had just gotten cable in my room. That was a big deal, and I saw 'Blue Velvet' on HBO. It blew my mind in a way that I don't think children's minds are supposed to be blown, but they probably shouldn't be watching 'Blue Velvet.'
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a great professional. What's been said about me going out a lot at night is a lie.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the happiest times I ever saw my dad was times when I was with him in the casinos, and he had a good night.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anne Rice really doesn't explore vampires as hideous monsters of the night, they're ancient creatures with a heart. And they want to be loved and they want connections just like we do.
- Nov 07, 2020
The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could see no position to say, 'I'm going to make a living as a writer.' But I went to classes for it; I read every play in 'Theater' magazine. I saw the second acts of everything on Broadway - I had a job as a CBS usher in New York City, and on my way home every night, I'd see what shows I could get into.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember as a little kid, I would always feel comfortable if the light in the crack of my parents' door was on at night. When it went off, that meant they were asleep. Then that terror and the fear of being by myself started to creep in.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020