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The door closed and darkness claimed the room.


R.J. Lawrence

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As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Darkness is nothing
but an opportunity
to spread light
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was gone.

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LAWRENCE DURRELL Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
LAWRENCE DURRELL If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else's house to earn money? You're working class. We...
LAWRENCE SUTTON The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
LAWRENCE DURRELL For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
HARDING LAWRENCE It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British wha...
LAWRENCE DURRELL A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
LAWRENCE DURRELL No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
LAWRENCE DURRELL There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had bro...
MARK LAWRENCE Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them...
LAWRENCE DURRELL There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, ...
ELIZABETH LAWRENCE Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more sui...
LAWRENCE BLOCK The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or m...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D.H. LAWRENCE We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, a...
BROTHER LAWRENCE We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
D.H. LAWRENCE Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti...
LAWRENCE BLOCK