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• I've dreamed a lot, but i'm not a very good sleeper.

  Michel Gondry

  Very Good

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• To sit here at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush...I feel like I'm dreaming. Somebody pinch me. You now what, I'm a pretty sound sleeper, that may not be enough...Somebody shoot me in the face.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Dream, Hero

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• Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Hours, Sat, Realising

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60 Occult & Supernatural Mysteries in One Volume: The Greatest Spine-Chilling and Blood-Curdling Stories of Terror & Macabre: The Call of Cthulhu, The White Ship, The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Whisperer in Darknessäó_”, p.318, e-artnow

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• When you're on a sleeper at night, take your pocketbook and put it in a sock under your pillow. That way, the next morning you won't forget your pocketbook cause you'll be looking for your sock.

  Ping Bodie

  Travel, Morning, Night

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• The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Dark, Past

  1871 Passage to India, opening verse.

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• Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Insomnia, Daytime

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• For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!

  Lord Byron

  War, Heart, Eye

  'The Destruction of Sennacherib' (1815) st. 3

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• Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"

  Frank Herbert

  Dirty, People, Leave Me Alone

  "Introduction" to "New World or No World" by Frank Herbert, 1970.

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• The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times.

  Norman Bethune

  Dark, Artist, Way

  1937 Letter from Madrid, 5 May. Quoted in Ted Allen and Sydney Gordon The Scalpel, The S word (1952).

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• this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making,
  sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake,
  this blessing love gives again into our arms.

  Galway Kinnell

  Children, Memories, Blessing

  "After Making LoveWe Hear Footsteps" l. 21 (1980)

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• Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake and attentive during his sermons. Beecher replied that he always had a man watch for sleepers, with instructions, as soon as he saw anyone start nodding or dozing, to hasten to the pulpit and wake up the preacher. Aren't you and I usually less sensible? Would we not be inclined to have the watcher wake up not ourselves but the fellows caught sleeping? In other words, aren't we disposed always to blame others?

  B. C. Forbes

  Sleep, Men, Watches

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• All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Insomnia, Matter, Consciousness

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.488, Vintage

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• Imagine an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation. But you know since they will die in their sleep, they will not feel the pain of death. Now if you cry aloud to wake a few of the lighter sleepers, making those unfortunate few suffer the agony of irrevocable death, do you think you are doing them a good turn?

  Lu Xun

  Pain, Sleep, Thinking

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• I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything.

  Kurt Vile

  Sleep, Kids, Large Family

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.

  Eliot Paulina Sumner

  Terrible, Horrible, Obsessive

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon.

  Rick Yancey

  Summer, Spring, Rain

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.11, Penguin

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• I'm an eight hours kind of sleeper, so I definitely try to schedule that in.

  Carmen Electra

  Eight, Trying, Schedules

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• If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

  Liane Moriarty

  Children, Good Luck, Parent

  Liane Moriarty (2014). “Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

  Tim Winton

  Lasts, Rooms, Awake

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• Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Children, Wall

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1402, Bantam

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• All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Past, Echoes, Brain

  Daphne Du Maurier, Daphne Du Maurier (Dame) (1942). “Frenchman's creek”, Sourcebooks Landmark

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• I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Fighting, Cities

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• I'm a very good sleeper.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Very Good

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• All the sleepers in a night of delution beholding so many dreams. In this world of darkness, only those who sever themselves from the meterial world, become absorbed in the contemplation of the supreme. None can be regarded as really woken up from sleep till they have renounced all sensuous delights.

  Tulsidas

  Dream, Sleep, Night

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• The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.

  Billy Sunday

  Church, Lines, Dormitory

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