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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I…
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you…
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons…
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense…
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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Popular Summer Night quotes from across the collection:
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
— Wallace Stevens
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Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
— Bryan Procter
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It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it,…
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message,…
— Isak Dinesen
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Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Everything is beautiful in it's own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter's day. And everybody's beautiful in their…
— Ray Stevens
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It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year;…
— James Agee
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You're like a cold beer, darling, on a long hot summer night.
— Rod Stewart
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The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.
— Leonard Cohen
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On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each…
— Michael Cunningham
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A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass.…
— Tomas Transtromer
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