"From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth."
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"I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train."
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"Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had."
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"I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening."
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"When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination."
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""Would you like to see the menu?" he said. "Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?" [...] "Good evening," it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body?""
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"Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous."
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"I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer."
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"Of course there are some evening dresses that you cannot wear in daylight because it would be ridiculous, but there is a kind of dressy touch for daywear, too, ... And everything, it's easy. There's no barrier between dressy, day and sports. It's feminine 24 hours a day."
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"If you like my poems let them walk in the evening, a little behind you"
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"I see a redness suddenly come Into the evening's anxious breast-- 'Tis the wound of love goes home!"
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"I don't make cocktails with whisky. I'll always drink it with a little bit of water. I love Negronis early on, but for me drinking whisky is something I do at the end of an evening. It's a midnight-to-3-a.m. drink for me."
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"I'm a total failure at housewifery. I always have been, 'cause I daydream too much. If I start doing the dishes at one in the afternoon, I'll still be there at six in the evening."
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"We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart."
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"A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away"
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"The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat."
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"If you have some other profession that allows you your evenings or weekends, terrific, stick with that. Having a profession other than writing also has the potential side benefit of providing you with material, something to write about."
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"I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse."
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"One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at the end of the evening, hoping for the chance to have a word. And I don't so much object to his holding my coat in that marked manner, as if mutely reminding me that it's time to be on my way. No, it's the snickering that gets me down."
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"The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium."
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