Dark City Quotes

• Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.

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  William Carlos Williams

  Moving   Rain   Dark  

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.174, New Directions Publishing

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• Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the cage fighting equivalent of a police procedural: violent, gaudy, and packing heat.

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  Trent Jamieson

  Zero   Fighting   Dark  

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• From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop he fashions a compelling view of the Chicago Algren once called 'the dark city.' There's a unique quality to his essays which manage to be broodingly meditative even as their narrative drive keeps you turning pages.

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  Stuart Dybek

  Fashion   Dark   Unique  

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• Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments in all their senses and members. Consider above all the eternity of their pains, which above all things makes hell intolerable.

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  Saint Francis de Sales

  Pain   Dark   Cities  

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• As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for everything. I would not be given a second chance. In the hours when I woke, I have to tell you that this struck me almost with relief.

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  Colm Toibin

  Sleep   Dark   Second Chance  

  Colm Toibin (2012). “The Empty Family: Stories”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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