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"I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for."
"I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey man, why don't you play some of your own stuff.' So, I finally did, because I had copied all his solos."
"Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web of insinuations ... Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known. It should slowly appeal to feelings unexpressed, it should in the end draw tears out of the stone."
"Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night."
"perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch."
"In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!"
"In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light."
"And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away."
"Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!"
"The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night."
"It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky."
"Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?"
"If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night."
"Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it."
"As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way."
"How much of the national news that you report to the public each night consists of information you've actually gone out and dug up on your own?"
"When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone."
"Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain."
"All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars."
"The prisoners still keep killing each other thay hung six yesterday thay fight all most every night in the stockade."
