"[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel."
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"You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep."
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"We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'"
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"What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights."
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"If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!"
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"Everything you do, you'll do better with a good night's sleep."
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"I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment."
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"Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . ."
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"What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused."
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"A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!"
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"What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more."
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"And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company."
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"Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie."
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"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting."
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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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"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep."
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"Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery."
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"My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?"
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"The world of sleep has an existence of its own."
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"It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief."
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