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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Sleep

"The children - I call them children when they're under 18 - are hungry for that love. The drugs are just a sleep that you can't even wake up from, because you might remember what you did when you were there. There's no place for them - there should be a rehabilitation center on every corner, along with McDonald's and the banks. This is serious business. The waiting lists are incredible. I mean, it's terrible. It's really terrible."

Mean Children Sleep
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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
Sleep

"The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own."

Order Hate Sleep
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Sharon Stone Actress
Sleep

"I eat right, I sleep, I work out, I'm happy. I have a beautiful family, nice friends. I choose the good things. I choose the happy, healthy things. I don't choose the bad, unhealthy, unhappy things."

Beautiful Nice Sleep
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St. Vincent Musician
Sleep

"Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear"

Sleep Poison Your Side
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Stephen King Author
Sleep

"The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep."

Real Dream Sleep
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Stephen King Author
Sleep

"But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off your walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of two evils and try to keep your good intentions in front of you. And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like."

Dream Night Sleep
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Steven Wright Comedian
Sleep

"When I was a fetus, I used to sneak out at night when my mother was sleeping. I figured I should start stealing stuff while I still had no fingerprints."

Mother Night Sleep
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Sleep

"In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring."

Sleep Spring Winter
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Sleep

"You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep."

Want Sleep Doors
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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
Sleep

"Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath."

Sleep Baths Slumps
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Shel Silverstein Poet, Songwriter, Author
Sleep

"i made myself a snowball As perfect as can be. I thought I'd keep it as a pet, And let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas And a pillow for it's head. Then last night it ran away, But first - It wet the bed."

Night Sleep Perfect
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Octavia Butler Author, Novelist
Sleep

"Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain."

Pain Sleep Hypocrite
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