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#noon

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At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.


Allen Johnson


#again #bell #entered #few #fourth

If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.


Daniela Pestova


#exactly #four #get #i #island

My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.


Robert Ripley


#aunt #concerts #down #friday #friday afternoon

A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough.


Lisa Kleypas


#christopher #hathaways #kleypas-hero #love-in-the-afternoon #love

My erection at noon causes an elongated shadow so black you’d think I was an albino.


Jarod Kintz


#albino #erection #funny #humor #noon

I was moved, too, to see her excited as a child--but no, for there is no childhood excitement to equal the adult journey to the beloved.


Shirley Hazzard


#equality

I beg your pardon?” Catherine interrupted. “Are you implying that women have poor judgment?” “In these matters, yes.” Leo gestured to Christopher. “Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?” “I graduated from Cambridge,” Christopher said acidly. “Should I have brought my diploma?” “In this family,” Cam interrupted, “there is no requirement of a university degree to prove one’s intelligence. Lord Ramsay is a perfect example of how one has nothing to do with the other?


Lisa Kleypas


#lisa-kleypas #love-in-the-afternoon #family

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.


Saki


#eccentric #golden-afternoon #humor #saki #twentieth-century

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the ceremony known as afternoon tea


Henry James


#classics #edwardian #life

There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.


Jorge Luis Borges


#music #plains #understand #untranslatable #music






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