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• The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

  Maya Angelou

  Lonely, Gratitude, Attitude

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.32, Random House

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• What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Courage, Dark

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

  Elie Wiesel

  Body, Soup, Bread

  Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

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• And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Goodnight, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [373]

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• She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.

  Markus Zusak

  Change, Time, Disappointment

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.259, Random House

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• From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.

  Elie Wiesel

  Eye, Mirrors, Depth

  Elie Wiesel, Harry J. Cargas (1993). “Telling the tale: a tribute to Elie Wiesel on the occasion of his 65th birthday : essays, reflections, and poems”, Time Being Press

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• Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Drinking, Food

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [124]

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• Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Kissing

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.

  William Blake

  Light, Soul, Doe

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 129

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• Before you go to sleep, do not forget to say thanks for everything good that has happened to you in the last 24 hours.

  Roy Orbison

  Good Night, Goodnight, Sleep

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• To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Attitude, Yoga

  The Wall Street Journa, Summer 1993.

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• Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail

  Arthur Miller

  Parent, Crucible, Black

  Arthur Miller (1957). “Arthur Miller's collected plays: with an introduction”, Viking Pr

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• The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Men, Light, True Joy

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• No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

  Bram Stoker

  Good Morning, Sweet, Pain

  Bram Stoker (2007). “Dracula”, p.71, Book Jungle

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• After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Happiness, Real

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 04, 2016

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• When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.

  Matthew Bourne

  Goodnight, Good Night, Thinking

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• I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.

  Eric Bristow

  Good Night, Drink, Mates

  "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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• Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Bed, Twelve

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.211

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• In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Light, Cities

  "A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 48), 1949.

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• I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

  Henry Miller

  Mushrooms, Roots, America

  Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in, I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down, and I'm like, 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.'

  Rebecca Romijn

  Good Night, Sleep, Tired

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• By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

  Sarah Silverman

  Comedy, Saturday, Performers

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• If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Good Night, Friday, Thinking

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