"The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy."
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"When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it."
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"If you drink enough beer, everything turns in to a bed."
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"I do it for the love. Bunk bed flow, always one level above."
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"I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'"
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"On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired."
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"For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change."
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"But I will be, A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed."
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"Quote: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?"
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"I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful."
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"This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed."
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"There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table."
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"I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed."
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"I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him."
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"Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go."
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"Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays."
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"When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it"
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"I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed."
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"There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive? The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks from the springs of the bed."
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"It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed."
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