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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. -- William Arthur Ward
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. -- Alan Bennett
When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez. -- Madison Davenport
I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. -- Emma Thompson
Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub. -- Mary Hunter Austin
After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often. -- Gustav Klimt
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life. -- Kay Granger
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them. -- David Attenborough
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular. -- Christopher Hitchens
My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time. -- Bob Feller
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk) -- Darren Shan
Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October. -- Patricia Highsmith
You said I was your number-one pick." "And you are. In our hearts. Alphabetically, though, Dusk comes before you. -- Derek Landy
It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone. -- Don DeLillo
You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. (Dusk To Dawn) -- Cornell Woolrich
When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for From Dusk Till Dawn, but I actually didnt know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez. -- Madison Davenport
O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16) -- William Ernest Henley
Studying texts and stiff meditation can make you lose your Original Mind.A solitary tune by a fisherman, though, can be an invaluable treasure.Dusk rain on the river, the moon peeking in and out of the clouds;Elegant beyond words, he chants his songs night after night. -- Ikkyu
Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars. -- J. K. Rowling
Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn. -- D.J. Cotrona
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. -- Wilfred Owen
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all. -- Zora Neale Hurston
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark. -- John Singer Sargent
So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow. -- Anna Godbersen
Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?' -- Haniel Long
Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. -- Jack Kerouac
How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible. -- Christopher Paolini
Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at dusk, was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated. -- Terry Tempest Williams
I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another. -- Hamish Bowles
I like the scene in the first 'Scream' movie where Sidney gets up, and dusk is falling, and she's looking out at the hills of Santa Rosa, there where it was filmed, and that's where you sort of hear her theme being played out. I always liked that moment because, to me, it became more than just a horror movie. -- Marco Beltrami
Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart? -- Nicholas Sparks
A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east. -- John Steinbeck
She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were grey; her trick of narrowing them made her seem to reflect, the greater part of the time, in the dusk of her second thoughts. With that mood, that touch of arriere pensee, went an uncertain, speaking set of lips. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror. -- Truman Capote
Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk. -- Stephen King
Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid. -- Alice B. Toklas
The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences. -- Alan Moore
Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk. -- Dean Koontz
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What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk. -- Honore de Balzac
I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet. -- Tim Winton
Eat in the dark the bargain that you purchased in the dusk. -- Ernest Bramah
He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk. -- Kohta Hirano
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk. -- Anne Rice
Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things? -- L.M. Montgomery
Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things? -- L.M. Montgomery
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come. -- Cesare Pavese
It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk. -- Robert E. Howard
O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk. -- James Whitcomb Riley
jukeboxes, radio and television, going from dawn to dusk, help spread the poison of synthetic, artificial, rhythmical noise. -- Maria Franziska von Trapp
Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object. -- Albert Camus
Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun. -- Simon Raven
From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance -- Phil Harding
Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk. -- Fujiwara no Teika
True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on 'looking off' to the Savior! -- Watchman Nee
From dawn to dusk I spent my time in the real world. Only in my dreams at night could I indulge my fantasies. -- Rampo Edogawa
To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky -- R. S. Thomas
There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass. -- Archibald MacLeish
It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing. -- Winston Churchill
When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk. -- Ben Harper
I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk. -- Loren Eiseley
And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep. -- Albert Camus
The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail; Far off a precise whistle is escheat To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale.... -- Allen Tate
Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves. -- Michael Foley
My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went. -- Antonio Porchia
Apparently my street has a leaf blower gang who tag team all day, so the sounds of the leaf blower are forever blowing from dawn to dusk. -- Bob Saget
The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember. -- Donna Lynn Hope
All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths. -- Kiran Desai
An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon. -- Katherine Cecil Thurston
In the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned when it is put into pictures. -- Stephen Crane
I was always amazed at how beautiful the light was. At different times of the day the landscape becomes a different place. Dawn and dusk, it's a different place. -- Bill Henson
Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night. -- Philip Jose Farmer
Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days... -- Jack Kerouac
Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night. -- Philip Jose Farmer
In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn't make yourself over between dawn and dusk. -- John Knowles
and I shut off my anxious heart and my nervous head as dusk descended into another night, another meaningless merging, another attempt to find myself as I gave myself away. -- Amy Harmon
A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room. -- Richard Yates
In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun. -- Madeline Miller
Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day. -- Kathleen Norris
No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk. -- Margaret Atwood
Who turns away from gazing at the sun Sees its dusk images fill all the air. It is not otherwise when Hope is done: Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair. -- Edith M. Thomas
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. -- Virginia Woolf
My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme. -- Anthony Kiedis
That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home. -- Deborah Harkness
Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar. -- George Meredith
Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk. -- Princess Shikishi
The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again. -- John B. Tabb
Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk. -- Beverley Nichols
The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions. -- Carl Sandburg

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