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“I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.”

Writing Kind Two Stories Found Dark Absurd Realistic Short Story Hyper Funny Story

Author:Dennis Lehane

“I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.”

Humans Two Sides Dark Deals Struggle Elements Aspect Vampire Who We Are Fascinated Fascination Dark Side

Author:Sheryl Lee

“I need to have a quick wardrobe. Two or three blazers with dark gray pants, two pairs of jeans, two light blue shirts, a casual shirt, two pairs of shoes, one formal one not. Small accessories like Tod's Greca belt and our woven bracelets for a wild touch.”

Needs Two Light Three Dark Blue Shoes Shirts Pairs Gray Pants Formal Jeans Belts Casual Wardrobe Woven Accessories Pair Of Shoes Bracelet Blazers Light Blue

Author:Diego Della Valle

“A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!”

Two Body Fall Dark Mystery Rivers Heavy Slips Crash Woe Monstrous Thighs Women's Bodies Swirls Supple Whirlpools

Book:the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

“Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered: "With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!”

Heart Two Body Light Felt Dark Wife Sweet Kissing Ears Males Dear Warm Bones Conquer Dry Worms Erotic Sweet Kisses Dry Bones

Book:the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

“The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.”

Men Way Two Different Together Choices Fighting Belief Nations Dark Chance Walks Share Land Men And Women Clouds Socialism Different Ways Prize Marxist Walks Of Life

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone - and you will not be.”

People Knows Want Two Suffering Song Dark Tomorrow Terrible Please Disaster Coming Out Celebration Not Alone Hurricanes Katrina Hurricane Katrina

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.”

Wells Two Light Joy Sides Dark Balance Sorrow Two Sides Light And Dark Joys And Sorrows Well Rounded

Author:JoAnn Ross

“Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their beer in the low haze Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran Noisily by them, glib with prose.”

Needs Two Happens Dark Rooms Poet Lows Window Beer Ran Prose Sunlight Inns Haze Dark Room

Author:R. S. Thomas

“We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.”

“The Divide is like two rivers merging, at the point of merging there is a great deal of activity. The sunset, it's neither dark nor light, and the sunrises are the moments of transition.”

Two Moments Light Dark Deals Buddhism Activity Rivers Sunset Transition Divides Sunrise Merging

Author:Frederick Lenz

“And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?”

Two Hands Dark Bird Paint Lovely Silk Fluttering

Book:I, Juan de Pareja

Source: I, Juan de Pareja

“I would be lying if I said I cut out all dessert. When Im training, I try to satisfy those cravings with a slightly healthier dessert, like a piece of dark chocolate or whipped cream and strawberries. Those are two of my favorites!”

Ifs Trying Said Two Would Be Lying Dark Pieces Cutting Training Chocolate Cream Craving Dessert Strawberries Dark Chocolate Whipped Cream

Author:Josie Loren

“I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.”

People Thinking Two Play Hours Dark Half Jokes Manners Invites Retired Half Hours Bad Manners

Author:Bill Nighy

“Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.”

Ifs Two Dark Goes On Glowing Life Goes On

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is the same story, in a way. Scrooge is the original Grinch. I think I am perfectly suited, because I have had some dark Christmases.”

Thinking Way Two Stories Hate Dark I Hate Originals Wounds Odd Iconic Scrooge

Author:Jim Carrey

“There seems to be something poetically that doesn't work or is limiting when you call God 'God' in a poem. When I tried to be honest with myself in my relationship with God, Christ is, on the one hand, completely dark, he's transcendent and unknown. On the other hand, he is completely imminent and completely knowable as Jesus. Our tradition speaks of him in both ways as transcendent but also as a lover who comes to us, and the two word 'Dark One' seem to me to contain both things, the transcendence and otherness of Christ, but also like a kind of dark lover who comes to us.”

Way Kind Two Hands Seems Jesus Speak Christ Dark Honest Lovers Tradition Being Honest Transcendence Transcendent Relationship With God Otherness

Author:Kevin Hart

“Essentially, in photography, I think on two levels: one emotional and the other technical. The emotional impact has to do with looking for something dramatic happening in the photograph, something that reaches out and touches somebody in some way. And the technical is having to do with composition and framing - light and dark, light and shadow.”

Thinking Way Two Light Dark Levels Emotional Photography Happenings Shadow Impact Photograph Dramatic Reach Out Composition Light And Dark Framing Light And Shadow

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“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)

“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

“There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.”

Source: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export

“We may say that feelings have two kinds of intensity. One is the intensity of the feeling itself, by which loud sounds are distinguished from faint ones, luminous colors from dark ones, highly chromatic colors from almost neutral tints, etc. The other is the intensity of consciousness that lays hold of the feeling, which makes the ticking of a watch actually heard infinitely more vivid than a cannon shot remembered to have been heard a few minutes ago.”

Kind May Has Beens Two Feelings Sound Dark Consciousness Watches Heard Minutes Color Shots Lays Loud Remembered Etc Intensity Vivid Distinguished Luminous Cannons

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“Past, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy.... Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one-the knowledge and the dream.”

Two Dream Past Moving Joy Lines Dark Known Periods Sorrow Eternity Disappointment Prosperity Yesterday Division Imaginary Acquaintance Fractions Morrow

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following. For that fortune, some sold their soul to Satan. Was on track for the first two years, then i let the Devil steer. Now i got to mask my tears, but allow me to re-introduce myself, my name is Cole: Born sinner, opposite of a winner. But the Devil run the T.V. so the demons in him, I'm in trouble did a deal with the Devil but now I'm pleading with him like give me my soul. I ain't ever letting go but the devil don't play fair.”

“It was dark and misty for 2 weeks, and I didn't come up with a thing. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, 'Wow, look at those beautiful Alps.' I wrote 'Mr. Blue Sky' and 13 other songs in the next two weeks.”

Looks Two Beautiful Song Next Dark Sun Week Sky Blue Come Up Wow Two Weeks Blue Sky Misty Alps

Author:Jeff Lynne

“In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear certain colors of lipstick, like bright pink, dark pink or red; [my lips] had to be natural. Eventually, I stopped communicating with certain people at the label, and did exactly what I wanted to do. And that was to cut my hair, dye it black, change my clothes, change my sound. Really to just express myself.”

People Years Firsts Two Wanted Certain Sound Black Natural Dark Careers Cutting Color Hair Clothes Red Lips Communicate Labels Two Years Restraint Lipstick Hair Dye

Author:Rihanna

“I think in the modern world we really need to have movie theaters or places we can go in and rejuvenate ourselves. I think we'll have less problems with our souls and our health. I do that in my life, and I feel healthy and happy. I need those hours in the darkness where I used to spend time as a kid, sitting in a little closet in the darkness, listening to AM radio, having glowing paint that I illuminated, just sitting there, dreaming about anything, not being disturbed for an hour or two, just alone in the dark. I'm still that little boy in my brain.”

“Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had to go through the "Dark Night of the Soul," although for one or two it was very, very quick.”

Two Soul Ends Spiritual Night Suffering Dark Teacher Teaching Possibility Dark Night Dark Night Of The Soul Spiritual Teaching

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Science, pure science, is leading us in a sense astray. Leading us astray with the idea that everybody has got to have everything that they want even if it means polluting the entire environment. It is a case of lets just keep one or two canisters of the smallpox virus because we'll never know when we might need it. Science is becoming very much a Dark Power, in many ways.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Needs Mean Two Ideas Might Dark Cases Environment Becoming Pure Viruses Smallpox

Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

“There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.”

Two Light Sides Dark Player Two Sides

Author:John Locke

“Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind of imprisonment we can inflict on fellow humans, and if you are forced to keep silent about some dark secret, you live in solitary confinement. Without the bridge of communication connecting you to other human beings, you can’t share your burdens, can’t receive comfort, can’t confirm that you still belong. Silence is the abyss that separates you from hope.”

“The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'”

Said Two Age Water Dark Simple Behinds Dying Pure Medical Physicians Dark Ages Pure Water Simple Food

Author:Voltaire

“In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters--all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.”

Ifs Knows Feels Two Home Mother Father Interest Dark Share Brother Habit Members Ties Brothers And Sisters

Book:Notes of Thought

Source: Notes of Thought

“Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.”

Humans Art Two Fighting Universe Force Dark Overcoming Stupidity Programming Destructive Schedules Programmers Methodology Entropy Human Stupidity Dark Art

Author:Damian Conway

“I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.”

Two Dark Moon Shadow Shade Lunatic

Author:Marina Tsvetaeva

“You know, to me, that's going to influence the culture. They both influence each other - I know that - but, you know, there's no two ways about it. When you're just immersed in kind of this dark, edgy constant flow of entertainment, there's no way it can't affect you. There's just no way.”

Knows Way Kind Two Culture Dark Influence Flow Constant Entertainment Two Ways Edgy

Author:Michael Landon, Jr.

“During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.”

Ifs World Years Two Past Energy Given Dark Our Lives Century Projects Innovation Continuing Life Span

Author:Bill Gates

“Having a baby isn't so bad. If you're a female Emperor penguin in the Antarctic. She lays the egg, rolls it over to the father, then takes off for warmer weather where she eats and eats and eats. For two months, the father stands stiff, without food, blind in the 24-hour dark, balancing the egg on his feet. After the little penguin is hatched, the mother sees fit to come home.”

Ifs Littles Two Home Mother Father Hours Dark Feet Baby Months Fit Female Blind Lays Weather Eggs Coming Home Emperor Two Months Having A Baby Penguins Egg Rolls

Author:L. M. Boyd

“When you stand between two mirrors you're spread out among the images, your whole soul is pulled out thin, and somewhere in the distant images a dark part of you might get out and come looking for you, if you aren't careful.”

Ifs Two Soul Whole Might Dark Mirrors Careful Spread

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I think my first love is film. There's something about the span of it and the completion of the experience. You sit down for two hours, in the dark, and you go somewhere else, and then you come back, having completed a journey.”

Thinking Firsts Two Film Hours Dark Love Is Journey First Love Somewhere Else Completion

Author:Jon Spaihts

“The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.”

People Children Two Stories Together Dark Rooms Consciousness Steps Ideals Pairs Dark Room

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“Of all the facts I daily live with, there's none more comforting than this; If I have two rooms, one dark, the other light, and I open the door between them, the dark room becomes lighter without the light one becoming darker. I know this is no headline, but it's a marvelous footnote; and comforts me in that.”

Ifs Knows Two Facts Light Dark Rooms Doors Becoming Comfort Marvelous Comforting Headlines Lighters Dark Room Footnotes

Author:Gerhard E Frost

“When Adam's House Cat broke up in 1991, which was Cooley and my band for six years, I put my entire life, heart, and soul into that thing. I mean everything. I ended up getting divorced over it, and then the band broke up and I was left with nothing. I had nothing to show for six years of my life except for a finished record that still hasn't come out. And I went through a pretty deep, dark, two-year depression after that, [which] probably resulted in some of the earlier songs that became Drive-By Trucker songs, for that matter.”

Years Heart Mean Stills Two Soul Matter Shows Song House Left Dark Records Band Six Cat Finished Broke Two Years Over It Adam Divorced Heart And Soul Broke Up Deep Dark Truckers

Author:Patterson Hood

“My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.”

Two Kids Mother Black Dark Groups Hair Black Women No Love Single Mother Panthers Short Hair Black Panther Dark Skinned

Author:Tupac Shakur

“The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.”

Wells Two Stories Light Age Speak Water Dark Accepting One Thing Youth Mirrors Old Age Multitudes Microscopes Drop Of Water Youth And Old Age Opaque

Book:Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“There is a struggle inside you between these two parts. It's as if at times your heart becomes a battlefield! The secret part, full of light, seems so small and weak in the face of the discouraging and morbid part, which seems enormous and overwhelming. However, if you light a small candle in a dark room, everything is lit up. It is a matter of trusting in this little light in the deepest part of your being which can gradually chase away the darkness.”

Ifs Heart Littles Two Matter Light Seems Faces Dark Rooms Secret Darkness Struggle Weak Enormous Overwhelming Candle Lit Discouraging Battlefields Morbid Dark Room

Author:Jean Vanier

“I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States? The vice president has two duties. One is to break a tie in case of a tie vote in the United States Senate... The other is to inquire daily as to the health of the president. Neither one of those are very challenging as compared to being able to live for a good part of the time in the state of Arizona.”

Thinking Want Years Two States President Challenges Dark United Break Cases United States Duty Vote Prison Vices Ties Feds Camps Senate Scrap Vice President Arizona Vietnamese

Author:John McCain

“In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.”

People Way Firsts Two Would Be Energy Dark Race Car Amount Discovery Horse Oil Internals Texas Electric Obscure Steam Gasoline Pennsylvania Density Footnotes Combustion Electric Car Dark Horse

Author:Bill Gates

“One day when I was working on a movie, I stayed at the beach a little too long, and they said, “You are going to ruin a whole day of shooting because you’re so dark. Two days ago you weren’t like this!” So I started putting that in the character; I made him suntanned all the time.”

Littles Long Made Said Two Whole Character Dark One Day Ruins Beach Shooting They Said Two Days

Author:George Hamilton

“I did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this play every night." It's so dark and so bottomless.”

Humans Two Play Remember Night Three Dark Human Beings Watches Months Every Night Two Months Chekhov Three Sisters

Author:Justin Theroux