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By Nightfall

By Nightfall
Michael Cunningham

By Nightfall is the sixth novel by Pulitzer Prize winning American author Michael Cunningham.

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“Please, God, send me something to adore.”

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“Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.”

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“A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side.”

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