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“Many say that DOS is the dark side [from Star Wars], but actually UNIX is more like the dark side: It's less likely to find the one way to destroy your incredibly powerful machine, and more likely to make upper management choke.”

Way War Stars Sides Dark Powerful Machines Management One Way Choke Dark Side Unix

Author:Lore Sjoberg

“In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.”

“All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.”

Process Dark Seeds Surrender Instant Cracks Buried

Book:The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)

Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)

“Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.”

Real Matter Stories Black Dark Tradition Roots Myth Rising What Matters Gifted Splendid Real Things Grounding Hollies Gifted Writers

Author:Ellen Kushner

“The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.”

Trying Real Stories Dark Perfect Hero Ems Obsessive Larger Than Life Warts

Author:Frank Miller

“Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we're too busy chasing down the extraordinary moments. Other times we're so afraid of the dark we don't dare let ourselves enjoy the light. A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. That would eventually become unbearable. I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude and inspiration”

“I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.”

Water Dark Oblivion Dropping Sinking Pebbles

Book:Firelight

Source: Firelight

“We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.”

Needs Age Dark Five Minutes Musical Radio Pollution Five Minutes Dark Ages Aspirin

Author:Vangelis

“Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.”

“You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.”

Wells Stills Ends Self Light Joy Hate Grows Sides Dark Love You Harder Remains Ancient Witness You Choose Arrogant Puzzles Dark Side Loathing Self Loathing Life Or Death Dark Life

Author:Glenn Beck

“Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.”

Fun Dark Opposites Colour Los Angeles Sunny Moscow Polar Opposites

Author:Daley Thompson

“A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.”

Dark

Author:C. K. Williams

“There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It's more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.”

Source: Promises Betrayed: Waking Up from the American Dream

“The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body & flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms & clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.”

“Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.”

Kind Matter Age Waiting Sound Dark No Matter What Closets Basements Waiting For You

Author:R. L. Stine

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.”

Heart Dark Vulnerable Vulnerability Theological Coffins Those We Love What Is Love Captivating Unbreakable Caskets

Book:The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

“But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.”

Knows Feels Humans Looks Soul Eye Lying Night Dark Common Effects Holy Constitution Blessed Saint Get Up Emptiness Fatigue Dark Night Dark Night Of The Soul

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.”

Doe States Water Dark Morning Sun Promise Moon Rain Blue Wide Dawn Lakes Autumn Eagles Mississippi Rosy Sun Rise Delta Deep Water Mississippi Delta

Book:Wolf Whistle

Source: Wolf Whistle

“In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen matches. I gave her a cake of Lifebuoy soap. I gave her a ceilingful of glow-in-the-dark planets. I gave her a bald baby doll. I gave her a ripe fig, sweet as new wood, and a milkdrop from its stem. I gave her a peppermint puff. I gave her a bouquet of four roses. I gave her fat earthworms for her grave. I gave her a fish from Roebuck Lake, a vial of my sweat for it to swim in.”

Mind Dark Four Planets Sweet Baby Rose Fishes Boxes Woods Graves Fats Kitchen Lakes Swim Cake Sweat Candle Stem Soap Dolls Ripe Puff Figs Bouquets Peppermint Glow In The Dark

Book:Music of the Swamp

Source: Music of the Swamp

“At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.”

Feels Whole Body Eye Grows Dark Fingers Misty

Book:The Setting Sun

Source: The Setting Sun

“I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.”

Country Dark Birth Intention Leaving Britain Labour Seventies Taxation Dark Days Leaving The Country

Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber

“I have a power word that I use-when I qualified for the Olympics in 2008, it was fighter. That way when I'm in the race and I get to those dark moments, I can think of the word and it evokes that emotion for me.”

Thinking Way I Can Moments Use Dark Race Emotion Fighter Olympics Qualified Evoke Dark Moments

Author:Kara Goucher

“The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.”

Social Difficult Sides Dark Taken Media Social Media Proportion Seconds Dark Side Of Context

Author:Nicola Formichetti

“The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.”

Light Dark Perfect Cold Warm Antidote Creepy Cozy

Author:Candice Olson

“Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.”

Art Two Might Together Night Process Dark Fine Creatures Kissing Sunday Fine Arts Spoons Rainy Calves Cuddling Sunday Night

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“I really only write about inner landscapes and most people don't see them, because they see practically nothing within, because they think that because it's inside, it's dark, and so they don't see anything. I don't think I've ever yet, in any of my books, described a landscape. There's really nothing of the kind in any of them. I only ever write concepts. And so I'm always referring to "mountains" or "a city" or "streets." But as to how they look: I've never produced a description of a landscape. That's never even interested me.”

People Thinking Writing Looks Kind Book Dark Cities Streets Mountain Concepts Landscape Description Referring

Author:Thomas Bernhard

“A guy walks into a bar, orders a drink, sees a girl that catches his eye. Asks her if she wants another, they fall for each other and end up lovers. They laugh, cry, hold on tight and make it work for a little while, then one night her taillights fade out into the dark. And a guy walks into a bar”

Ifs Want Littles Ends Eye Night Guy Order Fall Girl Asks Dark Walks Laughing Cry Lovers Drink Bars His Eyes Fades One Night

Author:Tyler Farr

“For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.”

War Dark Wife Despair Clouds Divorce Isolated Veteran Family Life Basements Upstairs Bewildered Dark Clouds Hang Over

Book:What It Is Like To Go To War

Source: What It Is Like To Go To War

“No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.”

People Two Hours Dark Millions Saint Filmmaker Movie Pope

Author:Frank Capra

“Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable quality: moral seriousness. Her argument builds a powerful emotional force, a sense of deep inevitability. . . . It is not often that a work of such dark conclusions has felt so hopeful and brave.”

Book Force Felt Dark Powerful Quality Moral Written Emotional Argument Brave Critics Valuable Conclusion Hopeful Seriousness Inevitability Flair

Author:Mark Kingwell

“I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.”

Sides Dark Tears Constant Comic Bored Clown Dark Side Probing

Author:Chris Lilley

“Opening a door to the mysteries, hoping to shed a little dark on all the stuff we think we know.”

Thinking Knows Littles Stuff Dark Doors Mystery Opening Shed

Author:Brian Andreas

“Roy Blount, who is the funniest person I know, journeys deep into the dark heart of humor and brings back a wonderfully insightful, superbly crafted song of the soul that had me laughing and crying too”

Knows Heart Persons Soul Song Dark Laughing Journey Cry Insightful

Author:Dave Barry

“How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.”

Knows Writing Littles Felt Dark White Consciousness Known Sea Creating Fearless Beach Sand Hopeful Insecure Launching White Sand

Book:Notebooks, 1960-1977

Source: Notebooks, 1960-1977

“The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.”

Ifs World Today Faces Fighting Dark Moral Imagine Crime This World Objectives Bats Parallels Knights World Today Dilemma Moral Dilemma Fighting Crime

Author:Zack Snyder

“I'm kinda racist... I don't really like dark butts too much... It's rare that I do dark butts. Like really rare... It's like, no darker than me. No darker than me. I love the pool test.... If you can be like 'Yo, baby. I met you in the club. Let's go back to my house. Jump in the pool exactly like you are.'-And you don't come looking better wet than you were before you got in the pool then that's not a good look.”

Ifs Looks House Dark Too Much Like You Baby Mets Tests Clubs Racist Pool Wet Looking Good

Author:Yung Berg

“Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.”

Form House Dark Skills Beats Wounds Posts Thrilling Frontiers Hollow Visionaries

Author:Laird Barron

“A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.”

Men Light Dark Walks Rooms Millions Figures Blue Eight Dark Blue Light Blue

Author:Hallie Ephron

“If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.”

Ifs Needs Looks Sometimes Jobs Dark Transformed Punk Visceral Dark Things

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

“We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.”

Sometimes Light Sides Dark Moon Dark Side

Book:Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

“Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.”

Wells Girl Dark Newspapers Promotion Winking

Author:William Randolph Hearst

“This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.”

People Believe Stills Light Able Wanted Individual Differences Dark Dear Glasses Wounds Preserves Sheep Status Quo Spiders Handful Flocks Jars Inquisition

Book:The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)

Source: The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)

“Being part of the original Star Wars generation, I have always known a dark future.”

War Stars Dark Known Generations Originals

Author:Greg van Eekhout

“Bangkok 8 is one of the most startling and provocative mysteries that I've read in years. The characters are marvelously unique, the setting is intoxicating and the plot unwinds in dark illusory strands, reminiscent of Gorky Park. Once I started, I didn't want to put it down.”

Want Years Character Dark Mystery Unique Setting Settings Parks Plot Provocative Strands Illusory Unwind Bangkok

Author:Carl Hiaasen

“The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.”

Light Eye Dark Quality Sea Demand Disappear Flames Centre Contradictory Brightness Undefined

Author:Alice Oswald

“Will Herman Cain become the first black President that I acknowledge? I call him a dark horse because he's an unlikely candidate who surged forward, and not because he's a horse.”

Firsts Black President Dark Horse Acknowledge Candidates Unlikely Cain Dark Horse

Author:Stephen Colbert

“I find 'Fatal Attraction' really romantic. I really like the seduction. Almost every time I see it, I'm surprised when it goes dark. I know that's the claim to fame, but I key into how genuinely romantic it is.”

Knows Dark Keys Fame Claims Attraction Seduction Fatal Attraction Really Romantic

Author:Shane Carruth

“I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.”

Looks Guy Bits Dark Style Strange Gold Shoes Not Sure Over The Top Smiley Gold Shoes

Author:Aaron Huey

“I went into the house. I put on Jimi Hendrix's 'Red House' at full volume, filled the glass to the brim with rum, without ice, and went back to the terrace. To gaze at the night and the dark sea and the night.”

Night House Dark Sea Red Filled Glasses Ice Volume Hendrix Rum Terrace

Author:Pedro

“When youre in a fighter jet and theres a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, its light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.”

World Light Dark Sun Elements Blue Clouds Connected Holes Fighter Just One Gray Layers Jet Another World Vertical Fighter Jets

Author:Yves Rossy

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