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• What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Fear, Math, What If

  Robert Penn Warren, John Burt (1998). “The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren”, p.128, LSU Press

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• Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.

  Bill Pullman

  Romantic, Feelings, Lines

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• With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

  Bill Pullman

  Romantic, Fun, Opposites

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• I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.

  Walt Whitman

  Real, Historical, Democracy

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.393, NYU Press

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• The quality of a survival kit is determined how much it can help you when you need to sleep. If you can sleep well at night, you have it made. It should also assist you in meeting your water needs.

  Mors Kochanski

  Night, Water, Survival

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• What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.

  Ovid

  Doe

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• Tied one on last night. Not feeling great this morning. I was trying to sleep it off, unfortunately, it was on the casino floor.

  George Lopez

  Morning, Night, Feelings

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

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• More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...'

  Neil Peart

  Prayer, Grandmother, Soul

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• Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do.

  Michael Phelps

  Swim, Can Do, I Can

  "Nutrition tips: what to eat and when", www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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• Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.

  Gustav Fechner

  Men, Forever, Three

  Gustav Theodor Fechner, Hugo Wernekke (1882). “Das Büchlein Vom Leben Nach Dem Tode Engl”

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• Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas.

  Sarah Kane

  Dog, Fleas

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.225, A&C Black

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• In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  "Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles". Interview with Herbert Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 22, 1984.

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• We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!

  Kwame Nkrumah

  World, Today, Awakened

  Kwame Nkrumah's first independence speech, www.myjoyonline.com. March 6, 1957.

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• Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Giving Up, Book, Writing

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• I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

  Christopher Darden

  Night, Law, Students

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• The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Thinking, Years

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time... Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Nice, Believe, Home

  Neville Chamberlain's "Peace For Our Time" Speech in front of 10 Downing St., eudocs.lib.byu.edu. September 30, 1938.

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• Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Remember, Exquisite

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• Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Running, Art, Names

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• Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Someone You Like

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.116, Random House

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• I like to keep myself wrapped in layers of sleep and wait for the geraniums.

  Ursula Hegi

  Waiting, Layers

  Ursula Hegi (2012). “Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• "Poor Mrs. Benefer," Heather murmured. "Well, a nice cup of tea and she'll be right as rain.""Oh, puh-leeze, Heather. A nice cup of tea, indeed. A nice cup of tea, two Prozac, and sleep for a week, maybe..."

  Douglas Whiteway

  Nice, Rain, Two

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• When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness. But this is, to speak in the Goethean sense, the archetypal phenomenon of social science. This sleeping-into we may call the social principle, the social impulse of the new era: we have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Men, Empathy, Soul

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• I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.

  Mario Cantone

  Morning, School, College

  "Standup Mario Cantone won't miss his bus to the Hard Rock". Interview with Rod Stafford Hagwood, www.sun-sentinel.com. October 10, 2012.

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• I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first.

  Sparky Anderson

  Paper, Firsts, Hops

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