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• I yell and scream like they do. I'm the worst of them. Totally. I'm a nightmare. Once they gave me the passport that was it - started throwing my hands in the air, drinking red wine and flying off the handle.

  John Kirwan

  Drinking, Wine, Air

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• I can conceive of no nightmare so terrifying as establishing communication with a so-called superior (or, if you wish, advanced) technology in outer space.

  George Wald

  Communication, Technology, Space

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• Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Twenties, Lasts

  "The Second Coming" l. 18 (1921)

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• In the dark, my master let down his guard and he was Caleb again. He didn't correct me. He didn't punish me. He didn't push me away emotionally. Caleb was there to hold me until the nightmares passed. He was there to tell me I was beautiful. He was there to tell me I was going to be okay. In the dark, he seduced me. I didn't want the seduction to end.

  CJ Roberts

  Beautiful, Dark, Want

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• ...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy.

  Rose Bird

  Cancer, Dark, Agency

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• I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'

  Anthony LaPaglia

  Morning, Keys, Fog

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

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• Voshak's hair, a pale blond braid, which he bleached, was his trademark. It made him memorable. That's how the slavers operated. They adopted costumes and personas, trying to make themselves larger-than-life and hoping to inspire fear. They counted on that fear. One could fight a man, but nobody could fight a nightmare.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fear, Memorable, Fighting

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Steel's Edge”, p.41, Penguin

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• It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.

  Nancy Werlin

  Fear, Black, Might

  Nancy Werlin (2003). “Black Mirror”, Penguin

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• Monsters are very real. But they're not just creatures. Monsters are everywhere. They're people. They're nightmares...They are the things that we harbor within ourselves. If you remember one thing, even above remembering me, remember that there is not a monster dreamt that hasn't walked once within the soul of a man.

  C. Robert Cargill

  Real, Men, People

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• Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature

  Idries Shah

  Spiritual, Struggle, Sleep

  Idries Shah (1964). “The Sufis”, Anchor Books

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• There is an excitement about having nightmares.

  Betsey Johnson

  Excitement

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• The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

  Elyn Saks

  Mind, Splits, Waking

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• Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Funny, Drug, Generations

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

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• Nightmares end. That's how you know they're nightmares.

  Kami Garcia

  Ends, Knows

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2012). “Beautiful Redemption”, p.11, Penguin UK

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• Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility of sleep are accustomed to develop into nightmares of anxiety.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  J. G. Ballard (2014). “The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard”, p.246, Holt Paperbacks

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• Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.

  Joan Collins

  Dream, May

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• Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Beach, People

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• At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Blessing, Attention, Incredibles

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• I think that divorce is hard for anyone. It's a nightmare - it just is - and you can pretend you're fine. And [there are] days you're great [and] days you're not great.

  Nicole Kidman

  Divorce, Thinking, Fine

  "Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman: Did They Connect Before Holmes Filed For Divorce?", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse.

  Deepa Kumar

  Girl, Mother, Two

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• Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Anger, Years, House

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• Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.

  Tom Holt

  Stupid, Elephants, Worry

  Tom Holt (2012). “Djinn Rummy”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• Donald Trump says he’s President Obama’s worst nightmare. That’s not true. Having to make a decision is Obama’s worst nightmare.

  Jay Leno

  Worst Nightmares, Decision, President

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• Computers are scary. Theyre nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

  Wesley Morris

  Jobs, Blue, Design

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• There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Dream, Liars, Hero

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