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• The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty.

  Cassandra Clare

  Country, Past, Guilty

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• I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.

  Julie Delpy

  Real, Awful, Before Sunset

  "Before Sunset". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.

  Jim Sorensen

  Vision, Action, Daydreaming

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• A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

  Aberjhani

  New Year, Bridges, Wings

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.54, Lulu.com

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• Summerset, don't you ever sleep?" "It's Lieutenant Dallas. She's--" Roarke dropped his briefcase, grabbed Summerset by the lapels. "Has she been hurt? Where is she?" "A nightmare. She was screaming." Summerset lost his usual composure and dragged a hand over his hair. "She won't cooperate. I was about to call your doctor. I left her in her private suite." As Roarke pushed him aside, Summerset grabbed his arm. "Roarke, you should have told me what had been done to her." Roarke merely shook his head and kept going. "I'll take care of her.

  Nora Roberts

  Hurt, Sleep, Doctors

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.603, Penguin

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• I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it nicely on my armoire. I take off my bones and hang them up on the hatstand. I set my scythe to washing on the old stove. I eat a nice supper of mouse-and-myrrh soup. Some nights I drink off a nice red wine. White does not agree with me. I lay myself down on a bed of lilies and still, I cannot sleep.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Nice, Home, Wine

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.175, Feiwel & Friends

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• There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

  James A. Baldwin

  Powerful, Real, Evil

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• Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into her chamber, illuminating everything around her in silvery light. That was when she noticed for the first time that there were bars on her window.

  Margaret George

  Heart, Moon, Light

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• You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.

  Greg Rusedski

  Sports, Cheating, Athlete

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• He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Summer, Dream, Morning

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.377, e-artnow

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• We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare." "Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great." "Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Pigs, Sound, Scrabble

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• It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

  Bill Bryson

  Worst Nightmares, Achievement, May

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.435, Lulu Press, Inc

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• This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment.

  Richard Blumenthal

  Law, Tree, Environmental

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• I was never really certain why he scared the bejesus out of me. Nothing scared me growing up. I’ve been playing with dead people since the day I was born, so it’s good thing, yet the Big Bad scared me. Which brings me to the reason I called.” “Which was to give me nightmares for the rest of my life?” “Oh, no, that’s just a plus. Why was I so scared of him?” “Hon, for one thing he was this powerful, massive, black smokelike being.” “So, you’re saying I’m a racist?

  Darynda Jones

  Growing Up, Powerful, People

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• My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Book, Long, John Kennedy

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• No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Procrastination, Long, Tasks

  Charles Baudelaire (1956). “The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters”

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• ...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year. If Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing -- emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.

  Tom Landry

  Winning, Years, Competition

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• Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

  Jon Ronson

  Stories, Compounds, Jew

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• She reached out and touched the king’s face, cupping his cheek in her hand. “Just a nightmare,” he said, his voice still rough. The queen’s voice was cool. “How embarrassing,” she said, looking at his maimed arm. The king looked up then, and followed her gaze. If it was embarrassing to wake like a child screaming from a nightmare, how much more embarrassing to be the reason your husband woke screaming. A quick smile visited the king’s face. “Ouch,” he said, referring to more than the pain in his side. “Ouch,” he said again as the queen gathered him into her arms.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Queens, Children

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• I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.

  Colin Baker

  Reading, Scripts, Looking Forward

  "Colin Baker ('Doctor Who')". Interview with Ben Rawson-Jones, www.digitalspy.com. December 14, 2009.

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• A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.

  Danny Boyle

  Trying, Directors, Looks

  "The sun is the star" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2007.

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• People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Trying, Needs

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• Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hands, People, Childhood

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2012). “Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.128, Penguin

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• Private boarding schools and Catholic schools on the East Coast are something. Choate really ruined my father's life. He's had nightmares about Choate every since he went there. Treat Williams, who's a good friend, went to Kent School, in Connecticut. The stories I've heard about those places - didn't you have one nun who was just the worst nightmare?

  Laura Dern

  School, Good Friend, Catholic

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• Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.

  Terry Pratchett

  Worst Nightmares, Librarian, Badges

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