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- Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.
- Graham Clarke
- Put out the light.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), last words, 6 January 1919
- Turn up the lights--I don't want to go home in the dark.
- O. Henry [William Sydney Porter], Last words, 5 June 1910
- More light! Give me more light!
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
- Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)
- Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - BANG - there you are in someone's living room.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
- Carl Zwanzig
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