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“The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary.”

Ends Light Fall Cutting Sky Fronts Color Rain Twenties Miles Evening Gates Thick Torn Purple Oaks Plums Evening Sky Angola

Author:James Lee

“By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.”

Light Age Taken Five Twenties Candle Candle Lights

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Libertarians are not the brightest lights in the candelabra, a fact that is evident from the alternatives they tend to offer to public prevention of private abuses. For example: if you don’t like working a hundred hours a week for twenty-five cents a day, then find another employer! It is obvious to intelligent people, if not libertarians, that more generous employers will price themselves out of a market whose standards are set by the most rapacious.”

People Ifs Facts Light Hours Five Week Example Offers Standards Hundred Abuse Twenties Intelligent Obvious Libertarian Alternatives Generous Cents Evident Employers Twenty Five Prevention

Author:Michael Lind

“The purple light or glow, which appears roughly fifteen or twenty minutes after sunset... looks like an isolated bright spot fairly high in the sky over the place the sun has set, and then it quickly expands and sinks until it blends with the colors underneath.”

Looks Light Sun Sky Minutes Color Twenties Spots Sunset Isolated Fifteen Purple

Author:James Elkins

“In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.”

“If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.”

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Author:Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.”

People Persons Made Light Faces Hours Decision Happened Comfortable Twenties Shining Divorce Tragic Dubious Darkest Hour

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?”

Light Universe Three Stars Feet Twenties Patterns Opening Guts Expanding Loaded Intestines Expanding Universe

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.”

“Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks; Tuck a child in the crook of your arm And reach for the library books. Hide the remote, Let the computer games cool, For one day your children will be off to school; Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice; Let them hear their first tales In the sound of your voice. Read in the morning; Read over noon; Read by the light of Goodnight Moon. Turn the pages together, Sitting close as you'll fit, Till a small voice beside you says, "Hey, don't quit.”

“How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.”

Light Century Twenties Meetings Get Back Committees Bureaucrats

Author:Peter F. Hamilton

“Introducing 'Lite': the new way to spell 'Light'; but with twenty per cent fewer letters.”

Way Light Letters Twenties Spells Fewer Introducing Cents New Ways Hilarious English Language Ignorance Is Bliss

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.”

Men Years Kind Children War Hard Light Force Causes Worst Drug Twenties Wine Drinking Campaigns Beer Users Replaced Liquor Prohibition Drug Prohibition

Book:William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words

Source: William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words

“I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.”

Light Doors Minutes Twenties Refrigerators

Author:Debbie Reynolds

“Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.”

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five