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• Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

  Joyce Carol Oates

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• Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

  Joyce Carol Oates

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• The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.

  Christopher Pike

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• I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn’t have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren’t around. I was lucky to have mine around.

  Dwight Howard

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• Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it’s got everything, man. It’s got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It’s beautiful.

  Chad Smith

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• The cool parts – the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as ‘the Vegas of the Middle East’ or ‘the Venice of the Middle East’ or ‘the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert’ – have been built in the last ten years.

  George Saunders

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• This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

  T. E. Lawrence

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• Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert – and then make it brief.

  Gene Fowler

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• They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

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• A desert is a place without expectation.

  Nadine Gordimer

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• You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

  William Langewiesche

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• I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

  Edward Hall

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• Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

  Edward Young

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• The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.

  Robert Duncan

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• I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

  Ella Maillart

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• The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now.

  Eric Shinseki

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• The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

  Walter Elliot

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• They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses… we engaged a spy.

  Zebulon Pike

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• Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

  Khalil Gibran

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• Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.

  George Ball

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