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Ray Bradbury Author
Sleep

"...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound."

Children Sleep Summer
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Saul Bellow Novelist
Sleep

"I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery."

Thinking Sleep Husband
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Thomas Watson Businessman
Sleep

"He that loves the world, how active is he! He will break his peace and sleep for it. He that loves honour, what hazards will he run! He will swim to the throne in blood.... Love heaven, and you cannot miss it; love breaks through all opposition-it takes heaven by storm."

Running Christian Sleep
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Truman Capote Author, Journalist
Sleep

"How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up."

Night Simple Sleep
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Robbie Williams Singer, Songwriter
Sleep

"When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want all those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep."

Want Light Sleep
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Stephanie Miller Comedian
Sleep

"Based on the overwhelming array of luxury products manufacturers have recently introduced, homeowners want anything that makes their lives more comfortable at home. Whether it involves heating/warming accessories or spa-like home environments, it's part of the 'cocooning' phenomena that has resurfaced. People are spending more time at home and they want to be comfortable. They want to use their home to its full potential, not just as a place to eat and sleep between workdays."

Home Sleep Luxury
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Robley Wilson Author
Sleep

"It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the hidden life is by means of symbol; if it were not for the recurring evidence of murder – the disemboweled rabbits, the headless flickers, the torn squirrels – we should forever imagine our cats to be simple pets whose highest ambition is to sleep in the best soft chair, whose worst crime is to sharpen their claws on carpeting."

Mean Sleep Ambition
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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
Sleep

"I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the white person is certainly the superior one. She doesn't need food, she is one of the real saints. At the beginning I hated her, she had no personality- She lay in bed with me like a dead body And I was scared, because she was shaped just the way I was only much whiter and unbreakable and with no complaints. I couldn't sleep for a week she was so cold."

Real Sleep Two Of Me
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Russell Baker Writer
Sleep

"Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it."

Sleep Baseball Crush
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Sleep

"You try to be faithful And sometimes you're cruel. You are mine. Then, you leave. Without you, I can't cope. And when you take the lead, I become your footstep. Your absence leaves a void. Without you, I can't cope. You have disturbed my sleep, You have wrecked my image. You have set me apart. Without you, I can't cope."

Trying Sleep Faithful
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Ryan Russell Artist
Sleep

"I saw this girl, she looks so sweet, I wonder why, I'm so scared to meet. I think about her everyday, I wake, I sleep and hope and pray, For that one day She will come to me And I will say, You are the one I wish to stay"

Girl Sleep Sweet
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Sleep

"I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference"

Night Differences Sleep
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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
Sleep

"I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity."

Sleep Dark Fear
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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Sleep

"Man, just tryin' to get as much sleep as possible, to drink in water, and tryin' to make sure that my people give me the proper information to be able to get in front of people and speak. That's all I need."

People Men Sleep
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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
Sleep

"Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye."

Eye Sleep Dragons
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Mae West Actress, Singer, Screenwriter
Sleep

"I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed."

Lying Sleep Marriage
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Sleep

"But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep."

Men Sleep Effort
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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
Sleep

"Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet; night rushed over him. As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had a strange feeling: he and Gandalf were still as stone, seated upon the statue of a running horse, while the world rolled away beneath his feet with a great noise of wind."

Running Sleep Horse
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