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"Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell."
"Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed!"
"You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity."
"But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone."
"And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought."
"Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom"
"the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed."
"Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done."
"Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed."
"I have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in."
"Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows."
"I have an air mattress. It's great because if someone tries to suffocate me in bed I can just poke a hole in it and use it to stay alive."
"You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning."
"Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed."
"It was only after I untied my girlfriend from being face down on the bed that I learned her screaming, 'Asshole!' was a statement about my character and not an invitation or request."
"When I was younger I could never get up in the morning, I always found it so difficult. If I had an appointment, I had no problem, but just getting up early for the sake of it was so hard, I just loved my bed (and still do!)."
"Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood."
"The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page."
"I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for"
"Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past."
