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• Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

  Annie Dillard

  Memories, Work, Writing

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• We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Loneliness, Different

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.17, 谷月社

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• It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

  Alan Thicke

  Sides, Comedy, Said

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• If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!

  Vivian Campbell

  Rocks, Justice, Humanity

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• On stage, I am in the dark.

  Maria Callas

  Stage

  "Auction to make hearts of diva's devotees soar" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2000.

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• I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

  Connie Chung

  Age, Executives, Knows

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• Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.

  Benicio Del Toro

  School, Eye, Circles

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like the dark. I really am afraid of the dark.

  Monica Keena

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• Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve. -The Joker

  Christopher Nolan

  Curves, Knights, People

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

  Kelly Lynch

  Believe, People, Sitting

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• No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.

  David Matthews

  Hope, Night, Shadow

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• The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Perfect, Atheism

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

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• She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stars, Sadness, Eye

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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  But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Hero, Knights, Needs

  "The Dark Knight". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

  Susanna Moodie

  Encouraging, Clouds, Looks

  Susanna Moodie (2010). “Life in the Clearings versus the Bush”, p.11, New Canadian Library

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• What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

  Ryan Stiles

  Earth, Chess, Rooms

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

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• You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

  Trevor Rabin

  Over You, Might, Theme

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• One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Two, Black History, African American

  "Strivings of the Negro People" (1897)

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• And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

  Joseph Conrad

  Earth, Said, Has Beens

  Joseph Conrad (2010). “Heart of Darkness”, p.6, Bibliolis Books

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• In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.

  Giordano Bruno

  Light, Space, Giving

  "Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe". Book by Martin J. Rees (p. 22), 2000.

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• Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Scary, Fairy Tale, Classic

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• All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, of speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required".

  Dave Barry

  Fall, Lobster, Clubs

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.79, Rodale

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• Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

  John Betjeman

  Children, Sight, Smell

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