The Night the Bed Fell is a short story written by American author, James Thurber. The story is a brief account of an event that took place at his house in Columbus, Ohio. It appears as chapter one of My Life and Hard Times.
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Famous quotes containing the words the night, night, bed and/or fell:
“In the still of the night.”
—Cole Porter (1893–1964)
“I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)
“Its bed is left a faded paper sheet
Of dead leaves stuck together by the heat
A brook to none but who remember long.”
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“I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
What hours, O what black hours we have spent
This night!”
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