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Sunset

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Sunset

"During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset during the closing credits... The soap-opera sunrise showed the sun moving toward the left as it rose rather than to the right. They obviously had gotten a piece of film showing a sunset and played it in reverse... Had they called their local astrophysicists, any one of us might have recommended that if they needed to save money, they could have shown the sunset in a mirror before they showed it running backward."

Running Moving Sunset
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Lauren Oliver Author
Sunset

"I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in the world, how many skies: the pale brightness of spring, when it feels like the hole world's blushing; the lush, bright boldness of a July noon; purple storm skies and a green queasiness just before lightning strikes and crazy multicolored sunsets that look like someone's acid trip."

Crazy Spring Sunset
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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
Sunset

"I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset."

Sunset I Like You Glitter
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Italo Calvino Writer
Sunset

"Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say."

Fall Stars Sunset
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Lee Child Author
Sunset

"Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset."

Two Three Sunset
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
Sunset

"There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring."

Eye Spring Sunset
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
Sunset

"Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde."

Pay Sunset Oscars
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Sunset

"Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free."

Desire Inspire Sunset
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James Russell Lowell Poet, Essayist
Sunset

"The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush; All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush."

Fall Rain Sunset
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Sunset

"Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!"

Home Blessed Sunset
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Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet
Sunset

"Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shall make dust of history, dust of dust. Now I am looking on the final sunset. I am hearing the last bird. I bequeath nothingness to no one."

Past Stars Sunset
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Sunset

"When I love somebody, I like him to be around; I like him to take me out to dinner; I like to look at the sunset with him. But if not, I love him and I hope he's looking at the same sun I am. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. Some of this wisdom came to me after I was 50 or 60."

Sunset I Love Him Loving Someone
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Michael Grant Author
Sunset

"So asking you to take a moonlit walk with me, that would totally not work?" "What?" Again that glare. "Go away. Stop being an idiot. I don't even know you." "You're healing my little brother Bowie." "Yeah, that doesn't make us friends, kid." "So no moonlight." "Are you retarded?" "Sunrise? I could get up early." "Go away." "Sunset tomorrow?" -Sanjit & Lana"

Brother Healing Sunset
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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
Sunset

"What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay."

Death Sunset Decay
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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
Sunset

"Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone."

Space Clouds Sunset
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