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• A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Dream, Clouds, Wind

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• To a police officer, a sawed off shotgun is the ultimate nightmare. You can blow someone in half!

  Steven Seagal

  Blow, Police, Half

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• I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.

  Danny Pino

  Dream, Grandmother, Black

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• I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

  Jung Chang

  West, Firsts, Merit

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• People who are afraid to go to horror movies are generally afraid their whole lives. People say to me, 'Do you have nightmares?' I never have nightmares! And I go to movies and see the most bizarre things in the world, and go... Wow that is really sick, how fun is that! And I don't have to carry it around. I think that's very healthy.

  Stan Winston

  Fun, Thinking, Sick

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

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• Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me; but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Mind, World, Conflict

  "Neville Chamberlain". Book by Keith Feiling, 1946.

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• Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

  Gloria Naylor

  Home, Knowing, Long

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existenceof a ghost).

  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  Being In Love, Islands, Want

  Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books

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• I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.

  Shane Warne

  Running, Thinking, Player

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• You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

  Megan Chance

  Running, Feelings, Madness

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• Christ's lordship is a blessed hope for some & a terrifying nightmare for others. Regardless of our response, it is an unalterable reality.

  Paul Washer

  Blessed, Reality, Christ

  Twitter post from Sep 11, 2013

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• From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
  And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
  Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,
  I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
  When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

  Randall Jarrell

  Mother, Dream, Sleep

  "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" l. 1 (1945)

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• College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families

  Barbara Mikulski

  Dream, College, Financial

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• I did some pretty crazy stuff that I never thought I would do, for the sake of a movie, like surfing in eight-foot waves in pitch-black darkness, where I can't see anything. That still haunts me, kind of, in my nightmares, but it was worth it, it was fun.

  Leven Rambin

  Fun, Crazy, Feet

  "EXCLUSIVE: Leven Rambin Talks Chasing Mavericks Blu-ray" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 01, 2013.

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• I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

  Emmanuel Jal

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Talking

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• As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions of executive power are indeed a nightmare and Peter Shane's extremely readable and well-informed book describes this disturbing transformation in frightening detail. For anybody who cares about our constitutional system of protected liberties, this book is indispensable. I couldn't put it down and grew angrier, and more concerned, with every page.

  Mickey Edwards

  Book, Government, People

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu.

  Florence King

  Memories, Style, Mind

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• One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  People, Together, Losing

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• Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake. We live in a world which is penetrated through and through by science and which is both whole and real. We cannot turn it into a game simple by taking sides.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Dream, Real, Simple

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

  Peter Maneos

  Wish, Trying, Language

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• The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

  Karl Marx

  Generations, Tradition

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• One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Creatures

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2016). “The Summer Tree: Book One of the The Fionavar Tapestry”, p.253, Hachette UK

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• To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

  Dick Cavett

  New York, Holiday, Traffic

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.116, Henry Holt and Company

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• Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

  Marilyn Manson

  Growing Up, Taken, Devil

  "A Dangerous Man? Marilyn Manson Says He’s Become His Own Nightmares". Interview with Dan Aquilante, nypost.com. November 17, 2000.

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• You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're not awake, and you can't move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Moving, Teeth, Crumbling

  "Hot Guy to Know: Nicholas D'Agosto". Interview with Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. August 8, 2011.

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