A Quote by Patricia Highsmith

Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.

Patricia Highsmith

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After Dusk Falling Just Month October Quickly

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Patricia Highsmith
American - Novelist
January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995

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Henry Ward Beecher

What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?

Doris Lessing

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Henry David Thoreau

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Henry Rollins

I have to say, that I am delighted that Secretary [Hillary] Clinton month after month after month seems to be adopting more and more of the positions that we have advocated.

Hillary Clinton

In fact, the private sector is improving their algorithmic ability to search through big data month after month after month. And, of course, a big government bureaucracy isn't keeping up.

Carly Fiorina

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard - after that he went downhill very quickly.

Milton Jones

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

Ray Bradbury

You ought to know that October is the first Spring month.

Karel Capek

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

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Douglas Henshall

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Mollie Hemingway

Television demands continuity and more work month after month. One has to also maintain quality as it reaches not just India but U.K., Canada, Pakistan, and Dubai as well. It is very powerful. And the risk of flopping like a film is also not there!