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"Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions."
"The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go."
"When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted."
"Man must get back to himself before he can learn his relation to his fellows. Prometheus chained to the Rock of Ages is doomed to remain the prey of the vultures of darkness. Unbind Prometheus, and you dispel the night and its horrors."
"Success to me is my friends and family are healthy and happy and I feel good about myself at the end of the night and I can sleep at night."
"There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day."
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing."
"I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl."
"When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion."
"She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night."
"Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness."
"May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night."
"Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it."
"I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do."
"Johnny Carson is a comedian who is seen every night in millions of bedrooms all over America...and that's why his last wife left him."
"The other night I was playing twister with some amputees."
"If you want to avoid Alzheimer's disease, sleep 8 hours a night."
"Human beings generally need between six and eight hours of restful sleep each night. Restful sleep means that you're not using pharmaceuticals or alcohol to get to sleep, but that you're drifting off easily once you turn off the light and are sleeping soundly through the night."
"Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night."
"The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics- as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules"
