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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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• I heard that I am crazy for taking this fight but I'm very excited about this chance. His manager is saying that I'm a 'dead man walking' but 'dead men' cannot have 'nightmares'.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Crazy, Fighting

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• Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loneliness, Fate, Reality

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• And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage.'

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Believe, People

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• My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.

  Siouxsie Sioux

  Dream, Water

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• GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.

  Kathy Acker

  Mind, Eating, Has Beens

  Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper (2002). “Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker”, p.265, Grove Press

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• I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

  William Gaddis

  Player, Piano Music, Piano Playing

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• Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare. And it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.

  Nancy Reagan

  Dream, Children, Heart

  Nancy Reagan's Speech On Halting Drug Abuse, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1986.

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• Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

  Beth Orton

  Hurt, Kids, Therapy

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• I just like the child's nightmares and therapy, once an experience has found the light of day I'm no longer under its spell, I'm free to tell it. I hope in telling honestly I can in some way help other people to do so also.

  Beth Orton

  Children, Helping Others, Light

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Your nightmare existence in a trunk is over... At long last you will be recognized as the inventor of photography. This picture will prove it to all the world. (On his discovery of the first photograph, made by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.)

  Helmut Gernsheim

  Photography, Discovery, Long

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• SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with the fears and hopes that spring from the unconscious. Anything that turns you and your social context, the social you, inside out. Nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible.

  Gregory Benford

  Dream, Attitude, Spring

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• I have a dream! Because I have lived a nightmare.

  Christopher Titus

  Dream

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's nothing like a clown with a boner to remind you that you're having a nightmare.

  Dana Gould

  Clown, Boners

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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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• A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Turns, Ifs

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• 'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

  Dave Grohl

  Men, Ideas, Monsters

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• We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war's nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation's capital.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, War, Taken

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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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• Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Exercise, Thinking

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• It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

  Bertrand Russell

  Waking Life, May, Unusual

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