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• Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.

  Hetti Perkins

  Dream, Art, Never Forget

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• Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

  Robert Wyatt

  Artist, World, Want

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• It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.

  Antonin Artaud

  Struggle, Night, People

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.486, Univ of California Press

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• From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.

  Golda Meir

  Memories, Russia, Brutality

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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• I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Sleep, Night

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• The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Summer, Sports, Careers

  Dominique Moceanu (2012). “Off Balance: A Memoir”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• If Stone Cold was to become champion, as of now, that would be a public-relations corporate nightmare.

  Vince McMahon

  Wwe, Champion, Would Be

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• Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I charged, the easier it was for them to breathe freely once more.

  Tama Janowitz

  Hair, Sin, Breathe

  Tama Janowitz (1991). “Slaves of New York”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a shotgun wedding going on and its between Marketing and IT. Finance's worst nightmare

  Beth Comstock

  Worst Nightmares, Marketing, Finance

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• The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

  Gore Vidal

  Two, Perfect, Lasts

  "Ollie (1987)". "At Home: Essays 1982-1988". Book by Gore Vidal., 1988.

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• Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, New York, Tunnels

  Langston Hughes (2002). “Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”

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• Acting runs through my blood. There is some sort of creative desire to express myself and I would need that outlet. Otherwise I would be a nightmare to live with

  Nicole Kidman

  Running, Blood, Creative

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• Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

  Jonathan Raban

  Art, Real, Men

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• James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

  James A. Baldwin

  People, History, May

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• A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.

  Beryl Markham

  Men, Years, Water

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  Florence King

  Mind, Literature, World

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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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• I have a lot of nightmares.

  James L. Brooks

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• Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life.

  Sherry Stringfield

  Thinking, Television, World

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• My best vacation is your worst nightmare.

  Jim Bridwell

  Vacation, Worst Nightmares, Worst

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• I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.

  Jodie Whittaker

  Book, Reading, Quiet Person

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• Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest:
  Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers:
  Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest,
  And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Love, Lying, Memorable

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.499, Oxford University Press

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• Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!

  Nolan Ryan

  Dream, League, Pitching

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• The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.

  Henry Adams

  Crush, Attitude, Perfect

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.283, Booklassic

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• Whenever life gets to be too much for me, I have a hard time keeping my eyes open. Sleeping is cheaper and safer than drinking. It keeps you from saying or doing things you'll regret later, and though you may have nightmares, you won't wake up with a hangover. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

  Regret, Drinking, Hangover

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1987). “Joanna's Husband and David's Wife”, Dell Publishing Company

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