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“... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame or oil wick or the bulb of a gooseneck desk lamp: a pale, wavering, oblong shimmer, emitting incessant noise, which is to real knowledge or discourse what the manic or weepy protestations of a drunk are to responsible speech. Drunks do have a way of holding an audience, though, and so does the shimmery ill-focused oblong screen.”

“A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.”

People World Children Light Stars Dark Sky Corners Abyss Penetrate Grownups

Book:Midnight

Source: Midnight

“the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.”

People Children Light Eye Nations Memories Fiction Example Particular Habit Gay Wine Dancing Profound Obvious Analysis Rooted Polite Geography Great Nations Public Eye Essayists

Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin

“As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it's unnerving to walk out of a venue with friends and there are 20 people flashing lights in your face. Do you know how bright those lights are?”

People Knows Want Light Faces Actors Walks Know How Taken Do You Know Your Face Venues Picture Taken Flashing Lights

Author:Ashley Greene

“This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!”

People Men Light Age Passion Fire Higher Hunger

Book:Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience

Source: Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience

“It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.”

Source: Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands

“People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.”

People Light Dark Candle Light Up

Author:Irwin Shaw

“I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it's much better than being unhappy and sane.”

People Ifs Feels Mean Light Might Vision Gone Sky Rounds Unhappy Sane Cracked Mean People Being Unhappy

Book:A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979

Source: A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979

“The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her.”

People Art Shows Light Age Painting Drama Embrace Intellect Architecture Welcome Decoration Handmaids

Book:Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

Source: Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

“if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time. The effect seems salutary: even people who ordinarily are as colorful and gay as groundworms, who would dare not consider a flamboyant gesture, hang long strings of brightly colored lights around their houses, trim Christmas trees, and talk to strangers.”

People Ifs Long Light Seems House Religious Tree Effects Gay Dare Stranger Christmas Traditional Strings Gestures Orientation Colorful Sentimentality Christmas Tree Flamboyant

Book:The Vegetarian Epicure

Source: The Vegetarian Epicure

“I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.”

People Thinking Should Trying Light Wonder Watches Shadow Target Seduction Chamber Interrogation Bright Lights

Author:Anna Funder

“Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go.”

People Home Light Night Moon Rivers Shining Our Family

Book:Catherine, Called Birdy

Source: Catherine, Called Birdy

“There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"”

People Thinking Looks Light Eye Turns Rooms Teach Talent College Color Painting Exercise Standing Shoulders Bunch Release Editors Canvas Brushes Slap Dip

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.”

People Ifs Way Trying May Littles I Can Light Entertainment Guise Biting Nudge

Author:Matt Groening

“May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary - light to the dark, fire to the chill.”

People Way May Light Eye Values Culture Dark Common Fire Honor Ordinary Sight Heal Endeavor Makers Ritual Weary Chill

Book:A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call

Source: A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call

“It is said that angels come as thoughts, as visions, as dreams, as animals, as the light on the water or in clouds and rainbows, and as people too. Are they walking on this earth as people in disguise? Or do they appear for that one moment and vanish into ether again? Or is it really us, mere humans, who for a moment are picked up by the hand of God and made to speak unwittingly the words another needs to hear, or to hold out a life line to another soul?”

Source: A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives

“Not many people know this about me, but I'm a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I'm basically a natural blonde.”

People Knows Looks Kind Children Light Mother Natural Dark Hair Blonde

Author:Angelina Jolie

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