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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"I feel that humor, just like Fred Astaire dance numbers or these lightweight musicals, gives you a little oasis. You are in this horrible world and for an hour and a half you duck into a dark room and it's air-conditioned and the sun is not blinding you and you leave the terror of the universe behind and you are completely transported into an escapist situation. The women are beautiful, the men are witty and heroic, nobody has terrible problems and this is a delightful escapist thing, and you leave the theater refreshed."

Beautiful Dark Witty
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Woodrow Wilson Politician
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"The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves."

Lying Light Dark
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will.i.am Musician, Producer
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"But I will wear white - the whitest white! - purest most pristine white! - through the dark terrible days of winter - as no man of our time will ever dare."

Men Dark Winter
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Van Morrison Singer-Songwriter
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"When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love."

Light Dark Clouds
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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend."

World Dark Shadow
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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark."

World Voice Dark
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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark."

Dark Cities Land
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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark."

Men Pain Dark
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Tanith Lee Author
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"Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing."

Writing Dark Summer
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Tanith Lee Author
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"The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid."

Mean Light Dark
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"I mean, creatures who only exist in the dark don't know they're missing the sun, right? But once you've seen the sun. Once you've seen it light up the world ... once you've felt its heat all around you ... inside you ..." He clutched his own chest, and my heart cracked open. "Its hard to live in the dark after the sun dies."

Mean Heart Dark
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"Anger is great. It's powerful, when you need something to hold you up. Something to steel your spine. But in the dark, when you're alone with the truth, anger can't survive. The only thing that can live in the dark with you is fear."

Needs Powerful Dark
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"Her dark-eyed glare narrowed on me. "You could have least given him a shirt, Kaylee." "Like you're an expert on when it's appropriate to wear a shirt." Sabine bristled. "This seems headed into girl-fight territory," Tod said. "Should I make popcorn?"

Girl Fighting Dark
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"You're the brightest thing I've ever seen, Kaylee. You're this beautiful ball of fire spitting sparks out at the world, burning fiercely, holding back the dark by sheer will. And I always knew that if I reached out -- if i tried to touch you -- I'd get burned. Because you're not mine. I'm not supposed to feel the fire. I'm not supposed to want it. But I do. I want you, Kaylee, like I've never wanted anything. Ever. I want the fire. I want the heat, and the light, and I want the burn."

Beautiful Dark Fire
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Veronica Roth Author
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"I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because their might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready."

Light Dark Gun
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Veronica Roth Author
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"Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don’t want to lose them. But I feel like I have already."

Want Dark Tattoo
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Veronica Roth Author
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"I look up, and stop breathing. Eyes glitter in the darkness. Dark shapes sit in the car, more numerous than we are. The factionless."

Eye Dark Breathing
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Veronica Roth Author
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"It doesn't take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see."

Men Dark Fire
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