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• Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.

  Alice Hoffman

  Summer, Stars, Thinking

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.122, Penguin

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• In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.

  August Strindberg

  Moving, Wife, Female

  August Strindberg (1964). “Plays”

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• The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,
  All on a summer day:
  The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,
  And took them quite away!

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Queens, Heart

  1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.11,'Who Stole the Tarts?'.

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• Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

  August Strindberg

  Happiness, Flames, Inner Peace

  August Strindberg “Twelve Major Plays”, AldineTransaction

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• Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

  August Strindberg

  Family, Wisdom, Children

  1886 The Son of a Servant.

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• The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event.

  Iannis Xenakis

  Summer, Song, Rain

  Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.9, Pendragon Press

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• The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.

  Stephen Kinzer

  Powerful, Tyrants, Oil

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  Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

  Langston Hughes

  Summer, Rain, Humor

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.525, University of Missouri Press

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• Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

  Ann Landers

  Summer, Teacher, Determination

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• Long drawn, the cool, green shadows
  Steal o'er the lake's warm breast,
  And the ancient silence follows
  The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers,
  And dreams of countless Junes,
  Return when the lake-wind murmurs
  Through golden August noons.

  William Braithwaite

  Summer, Dream, Wind

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• Once upon a Lammas Night
  When corn rigs are bonny,
  Beneath the Moon's unclouded light,
  I held awhile to Annie...
  The time went by with careless heed
  Between the late and early,
  With small persuasion she agreed
  To see me through the barley...
  Corn rigs and barley rigs,
  Corn rigs are bonny!
  I'll not forget that happy night
  Among the rigs with Annie!

  Robert Burns

  Summer, Moon, Night

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• Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

  Victor Hugo

  Prayer, Ignorance

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• Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Summer, Children, Flower

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.56

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• There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies
  You can try and read it but you're gonna get it wrong...all wrong
  The summer evenings burn and melt and the nights glitter but you're gonna get it wrong
  And it's gonna sink its teeth into your flesh and pull you to the bottom.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Lying, Night

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• The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Moon, Night

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• August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Summer, Years, Pages

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• Boston has two seasons: August and winter.

  Billy Herman

  Winter, Boston, Two

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

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• August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

  George Monbiot

  Bad Day, Mad, World

  "The day the world went mad" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we werent able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.

  Richie Havens

  War, Phones, Long

  "Commentary: Woodstock, world's biggest family reunion" by Richie Havens, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2009.

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• On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lakes, Mountain, Massachusetts

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.1

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• This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left. I go back to that one moment when I stood in the driveway with small rocks and clumps of dirt around my feet and looked back at the porch. And there they were. All these mothers. I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shining over me.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Girl, Mother, Autumn

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• August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.

  Gertrude Stein

  Weather, Hot, Months

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1932-1946”

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• Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.

  Katherine Paterson

  Mean, Bully, February

  Katherine Paterson (2009). “Jacob Have I Loved”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth. This arcane act of nature, though perceived by us as ordinary, is a manifestation of Maya's phantom play, the great immensity expressed in every way. My garden is the universe. I am the universe. I am my garden. All things are the same.

  Duane Michals

  Garden, Purple, Play

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