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Literary
Lights
Tiny
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The lamps
had burned all day, less as illumination than as reminder
of the undefeated dark.
Paul
Theroux The Queen's Touch
He could never have compared
his mistress to a summer day, but rather to one of
those gray, overcast days in middle autumn when the
angle of the light makes everything very clear.
Laurie
Colwin Another Marvelous Thing
Success
is not the result of spontaneous combustion.
You must set yourself
on fire
Twilight
is short, and the unseen birds of twilight wistful,
uncanny, catching the heart.
Annie
Dillard In the Jungle
Shoot for the moon. Even
if you miss it, you will land among the stars.
All
my life I'd wanted to belong in their families,
to draw my lunch bag from the simple light and
order of their defrosted refrigerators.
Mary
Karr The Liar's Club
Mist from the river, autumn
haze, trailed moon-colors among the bronze, the blue
trees, and a halo, an image of winter, ringed the
paling sun.
Truman
Capote The Grass Harp
…in the obscured sky a
moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver
of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink.
Margaret
Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
The two noblest of things,
which are sweetness and light.
Jonathan
Swift The Battle of the
Books
There
are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle,
or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith
Wharton
He
was smoking and looking up at the pale stars
which know enough to keep their distance from
Hollywood.
Raymond
Chandler The Little Sister
And
in the park the palms are beginning their hopeless
surrender to the dusk, to the night that will
be luminescent beyond expectation, brilliant
and devious, more an equation than a lullaby
and, as always, absolutely empty.
Kate
Braverman Palm Latitudes
No trace: When
you do something, you should burn yourself completely,
like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
The
dew was falling, the dusk closing, as I trotted
briskly homewards down the road. Lonely
spaces everywhere, above and around. Only Hesperus
hung in the sky, solitary, pure, ineffably far-drawn
and remote; yet infinitely heartening, somehow,
in his valorous isolation.
The
Golden Age Kenneth
Grahame
Nor
do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel,
but on a stand, and it gives light to all in
the house.
Matthew
5:15
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