"Do you have a sleeping bag?” I stared at him. “No. I lost it in the great salt-dip of ’06."
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"Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it."
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"My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep."
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"Guess the honeymoon is over!" Denise muttered once we are outside. "Next I suppose I'll be sleeping in the wet spot."
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"Kitten, four hours of sleep while holding you is far more beneficial to me than eight hours of endless tossing and turning because you're not there. -Bones from This Side of the Grave"
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"Before you go,mate,turn on the telly. Something raunchy too. Think I'll rub off one before I go to sleep"
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"It's amazing how quickly things start to change when you haven't slept. Your memory goes. Physically, you don't feel well. Emotionally, you're all over the place - you know, if you miss one night of sleep. You can only imagine five nights of not sleeping. I was in an alternate state of reality."
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"My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night."
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"Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress."
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"My responsibility in the past, when I was sleeping outside every night, was just to survive. My responsibility now is to stay real, stay grounded, and just tell the truth."
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"I think it's so easy when you have children just to turn your focus inward on your family and because, when they're young, you don't sleep very much, you're walking around like a zombie most of the time anyway. It's a really important part of my life to have good friends, you have to work quite hard to keep the relationships going but it's worth it."
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"Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep."
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"Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth."
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"One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die."
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"But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep."
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"Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is."
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"Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next."
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"Sleep is pain's easiest salve"
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"And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep!"
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"Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired."
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