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Night Quotes


"I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder."


"You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long."



"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes."


"It was in the Seventies but I still recall what was a good night for my club. Of course, the stadium has changed now but I have heard that the atmosphere is still the same."


"I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night."


"When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier."



"There's no twilight in the tropics. Night falls like a curtain."


"One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash."


"The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch."


"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."


"Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning."


"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."
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