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• All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

  Plutarch

  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. "Of Superstition",

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• Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have
  To wear away this long age of three hours
  Between our after-supper and bedtime?

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Long, Dancing

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.176

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• Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sleep, Insomnia, Redemption

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

  Wallace Shawn

  Sleep, Insomnia, Poor

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• Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sleep, Insomnia, Trying

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.

  Robert Bloch

  Sleep, Discovery, Long

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• Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Insomnia, Suffering, Sleepy

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• When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Jobs, Stories, Juniors

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• It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.

  Bill Watterson

  Summer, Sleep, Light

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• The worst thing in the world is to be bland.

  Ben Huh

  Sleep, Insomnia, World

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• It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Good Morning, Adversity

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.180, Penguin

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• There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

  Dom DeLuise

  Saddles, Blazing, Five

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• Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Regret, Sleep, Insomnia

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

  Gore Vidal

  Book, World, May

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Science, Views, Long

  "Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe". www.locusmag.com. September 1998.

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• Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Alcohol, Drink

  Paris Review Interview (1981), later quoted in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fifth Series", 1981.

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• Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Voice, Listening, Needs

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• I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

  John Legend

  Thinking, Sometimes, Hyperbole

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• All writers are vampires.

  James Gandolfini

  Vampire

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• Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.

  Mason Cooley

  Blessing, Meals, Three

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• There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

  Edward Lucas

  Sleep, Insomnia, Naps

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• These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Laughing, Parent, Inheritance

  FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Apr 16, 2011

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• You don't let a guy put his hand on your chest, and put his foot on the ball and look into your eyes and tell you a bedtime story. No. sorry. He controlled the ball on his chest, step on it, look, see if someone was in the stands, take a coffee, turn, call his family, no one was answering, left a message, and then thought "Oh, I might cross the ball." He crossed it and they scored.

  Thierry Henry

  Sorry, Coffee, Eye

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• When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.

  Mark Gatiss

  Keys, Years, White

  "Doctor Who: Night Terrors". TV Series, September 3, 2011.

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• Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.

  Paul Auster

  Mother, Father, Book

  "I want to tell you a story" by Paul Auster, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2006.

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