"If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?"
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"If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned."
"What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?"
"I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me."
"When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun."
"Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament."
"The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become."
"A marriage without children is the world without the sun."
"If nobody loved, the sun would go out."
"A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun."
"Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun."
"Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day"
"I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment."
"You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up."
"When the sun dies we will become one."
"There is a sun within every person."
"It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children"
"Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily."
"Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific."
"Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery."