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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, ...

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Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

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Nelson AlgrenChicago: City on the Make

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts o...

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The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Sw...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

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

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

I was only twelve. But I knew how much I loved her. It was that love that comes before all significa...

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I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spendi...

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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go...

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All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunte...

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You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, i...

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OctoberO love, turn from the changing sea and gaze,Down these grey slopes, upon the year grown old,A...

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I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer....

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For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hu...

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AUTUMNAL Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees, That hardly sway before a bre...

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Ernest DowsonThe Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet a...

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Eudora WeltyThe Collected Stories

She raised a sharp eyebrow at him. "Vlad, no offense, but look at you. If you're not a vampire, you'...

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I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness a...

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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy da...

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The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mi...

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