Evening quotes

Evening

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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
Evening

"Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity."

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Ray Bradbury Author
Evening

"When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
Evening

"Wonder what it’s like to have a peaceful life,” Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Evening

"What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana."

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Marcel Proust Novelist
Evening

"There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this evening I shan't be free'."

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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
Evening

"Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it."

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John Keats Poet
Evening

"O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens."

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