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• It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to start the day. Covering her head with a pillow, she reached out blindly and urgently, desperate to shut the damn thing off.

  Naomi Ragen

  Music, Perfect, Alarms

  Naomi Ragen (2001). “The Ghost of Hannah Mendes”, p.69, St. Martin's Griffin

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• President Obama says he will not support a healthcare plan where the government gets to decide whether to, quote, 'pull the plug on Grandma.' Apparently, Obama's plan calls for the much quicker pillow option.

  Conan O'Brien

  Grandma, Government, Support

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• Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk.

  Princess Shikishi

  Fall, Autumn, Voice

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• Woman for whom Botox and fillers are the norm don't feel dressed without it. It's like going to the hairdresser's for them. Also, famously, lipstick sales go up in a recession: you may not be able to afford the shoes and the dress but you are sure going to keep your lips pillow perfect.

  Imogen Edwards-Jones

  Fashion, Shoes, Clothes

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• Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

  Patti Davis

  Life Lesson, Grief, Bereavement

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• There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As it crossed the cold water, it lost its fervour. Instead of valour or gallantry, you could hear the sadness of a soul parting with everything that it loved, calling on its nearest and dearest to wake up, to lift their head from their pillows and hear for the last time the voice of a father, a husband, a son or a brother...

  Vasily Grossman

  Brother, Husband, Father

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• Fur pillows are hard to actually sleep on.

  Kanye West

  Sleep, Fur, Hard

  Song: Jimmy Kimmel Interview Pt. 1, 2013

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• Dad says Specter gets steak every Saturday night for the rest of his life.""Specter will hold him to that, I'm sure." Diana leaned back against the pillows. "Hurry up and tell me the rest. Once Colby gets back, he probably won't tell me a thing. All he'll want to discuss is breast-feeding techniques and how tochange diapers.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Dad, Night, Technique

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• The government cannot put a chocolate on every one of their pillows and tuck them in at night.

  John Mica

  Night, Government, Chocolate

  "FAA announces pilot fatigue rule" by Jim Barnett, www.cnn.com. December 21, 2011.

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• I’m like the child who buries
  her head in the pillow
  so as not to see, the child who tells herself
  that light causes sadness—

  Louise Glück

  Children, Sadness, Light

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• I've never enjoyed sleep as much until I got the 'Today' job. There is something about early sleep that's much better than late sleep. I feel myself going to sleep; I don't just plonk my head on the pillow. It's a sort of winding-down thing.

  Evan Davis

  Jobs, Sleep, Today

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• What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do.

  Debbie Gibson

  Night, Careers, Gone

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• Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it.

  Sue Johanson

  Sex, Kids, Writing

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• Now I look back and think if I'd spent more time enjoying myself instead of crying into my pillow over men, my 20s would have been fabulous!

  Denise Van Outen

  Men, Thinking, Fabulous

  "Denise Van Outen interview: I wanted to be a young mum but it wasn't to be". www.mirror.co.uk. January 1, 2011.

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• The rugs that I picked out and the pillows with the little owls, sort of like whimsical throw pillows - I feel like you can never enough whimsical throw pillows in your house, in your life. My husband probably disagrees.

  Busy Philipps

  Husband, House, Owl

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

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• As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

  Bill Vaughan

  Spring, Night, Men

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• My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends... and to return to lasting values.

  Gae Aulenti

  Book, Home, Advice

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• An artful or false woman shall set thy pillow with thorns.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Women, Thorns

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author”, p.105

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• Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.

  Ramakrishna

  Beautiful, Men, Blue

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna", p. 37, 1960.

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• When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.

  Haruki Murakami

  Ideas, Tears, Wake Up

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.236, Random House

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• The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Reading, Ears

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.

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• We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that may be hidden behind a smile, of the secret cares, struggles, and worries that shorten life and leave their mark in hair prematurely whitened, and a character changed and almost recreated in a few days. Let us not dare to add to the burden of another the pain of our judgment.

  William George Jordan

  Pain, Struggle, Character

  William George Jordan (1901). “The kingship of self-control [from Self-control, its kingship and majesty] by W.G. Jordon [sic].”

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• You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Motivational, Inspiring, Travel

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Jul 23, 2012

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