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"Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language." »Henry James
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"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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"The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected." »Swedish Proverb
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"When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'" »Jerry Lewis
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"Billy Almon has all of his inlaw and outlaws here this afternoon." »Jerry Coleman
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"We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon." »Jimmy Carter
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"It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." »Hank Aaron
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"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." »Susan Ertz
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"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." »Susan Ertz
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"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." »Oscar Wilde
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"There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger." »Saul Bellow, O Magazine, September 2003
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"There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger." »Saul Bellow
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"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"A beautiful morning is not a guarantee for a beautiful afternoon! Just like a man of desert appreciates water, value well whatever beauty you have now!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it." »Luke Salisbury
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"Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it - and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape That's retirement." »Stephen Butler Leacock
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"The real 196s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963....It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out." »Lance Morrow
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"What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk And after you're real drunk, maybe go down to the public park and stagger around and ask people for money, and then lie down and go to sleep." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE
Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead." »Woody Allen, Without Feathers
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"I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair." »Gore Vidal
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"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." »Lin Yutang
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"When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'" »John F. Kennedy
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