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> [Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as the earth's bright-colored nerve endings, the sun's descent urging them into activity, filling them individually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/night-was-falling-birds-were-singing-birds-were-it-occurred-to-me-to/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

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