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		The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ray Bradbury
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You'd better hope and pray
That you make it safe
Back to your own world
You'd better hope and pray
That you'll wake one day in your own world
'Cause when you sleep at night
They don't hear your cries in your own world
Only time will tell if you can break the spell
Back in your own world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey
			
			
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		Listeners, that brings us to the end of another Potterwatch. We don’t know when it will be possible to broadcast again, but you can be sure we shall be back. Keep twiddling those dials: the next password will be ‘Mad-Eye.’ Keep each other safe. Keep faith. Good night.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joanne Rowling
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		On a little heap of BarleyDied my aged uncle Arly,And they buried him one night;-Close beside the leafy thicket;-There, his hat and Railway-Ticket;-There, his ever-faithful Cricket;-(But his shoes were far too tight.)
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edward Lear
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Robert Frost
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		He's had a big learning curve, and we want to play him more than what we did the other night, ... has got him scheduled to play more. He's a very good athlete, and he also can carry the football, and at some point here I'd like to get him a few carries and kind of see what he looks like there, too. But I think it's just a work in progress, and we're working really hard with him.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joe Gibbs
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		You have the upmost amount of energy because you're not just having a cocktail at the end of the night. You're actually not drinking alcohol and you're keeping your body really clean and it's an amazing feeling to be getting out all the toxins.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Colin Farrell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Do I realy regret that night? That one moment of joy beyond compare – some people never experience it in a lifetime. But the downside to that taste of pure happiness is that,like a drug, a glimmer of paradise, it leaves you craving more.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tabitha Suzuma
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I try hard not to repeat myself and not to do material other people are doing. We transcribe every other late-night show to make sure there's no similarity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jimmy Kimmel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Aristotle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anne Carson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Shakespeare
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Donald Freed
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lee Majors
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm particularly fond of the Mulholland Fountain, at Riverside Drive and Los Feliz Boulevard, when it turns colors at night.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Janet Fitch
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		At midnight every night, I would methodically leave the house for a couple hours' walk, come back in, and record. And then the sun came up. If I had done something good, then I'd be happy and go to sleep.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Callahan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I lived near the border with China, and one night, I simply left home and walked across the iced-over river that separated the two countries. I was fortunate that my family had close relationships with some of the border guards, so I was able to cross without incident.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lee Hyeon-seo
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart of the satyr carved in stone. The fountain sang and sang But the satyr never stirred- Only the great white moon In the empty heaven heard.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sara Teasdale
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen, heard, smelled, and felt: dizziness, horror, stupor, astonishment, joy, enthusiasm, nausea, inescapable attraction. What had attracted me? It was difficult to say: Human kind cannot bear much reality.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Octavio Paz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I write in a diary every night to collect my thoughts. It's very therapeutic to songwrite, because it's the same thing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ella Mai
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		One night I dreamed I was running. When I woke up I forgot I had a limp, so I walked totally normal until I remembered, 'oh, yeah, I have a limp'. Then I immediately stumbled. That showed me that if you have control over your mind, you can do anything.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jason Becker
			
			
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		The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				W. Somerset Maugham