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• Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Want, Consumerism, Dissatisfied

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.230, Random House

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• I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

  Edie Falco

  Letting Go, Song, Kids

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• Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

  Holly Near

  Sweet, Children, Sleep

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• The story was a sleeping girl in a narrow bed Dark hair thick and wild and twisted like seaweed across the pillow... Bella's Lullaby

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Sleep, Dark

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• closed my eyes and listened. It was like music I'd heard all my life, even more than "This Lullaby." All those keystrokes, all those letters, so many words. I brushed my fingers over the beads and watched as her image rippled, like it was on water, breaking apart gently and shimmering before becoming whole again.

  Sarah Dessen

  Eye, Water, Letters

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• These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Laughing, These Days

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

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• Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave
  Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot;
  Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit,
  Where long ago a giant battle was;
  And, from the turf, a lullaby doth pass
  In every place where infant Orpheus slept.
  Feel we these things? - that moment have we stept
  Into a sort of oneness, and our state
  Is like a floating spirit's. But there are
  Richer entanglements, enthralments far
  More self-destroying, leading, by degrees,
  To the chief intensity: the crown of these
  Is made of love and friendship, and sits high
  Upon the forehead of humanity.

  John Keats

  Life, Feet, Self

  John Keats, “Endymion: Book I”

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• It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours. Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.

  John Berger

  Artist, Unity, Together

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.71, Vintage

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• The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Perspective, Perception, Looks

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.21, Random House

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• My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Writing, Ties, Together

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• Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.

  Glenda Millard

  Book, Home, Needs

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• You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Winning, Race, People

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

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• When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Simplicity, I Realized

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Full many wanton babes have I,
  Which must be stilled with lullaby.

  George Gascoigne

  Babe, Wanton

  George Gascoigne, Roger Pooley (1982). “The green knight: selected poetry and prose”, Carcanet Pr

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• My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.

  John Berger

  Heart, Years, Clothes

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• He’s speaking in the tone of voice that everyone uses when they’re about to break you apart. Gentle—kind, even—like they can make the news sound better just by speaking in a lullaby voice.

  Lauren Oliver

  Voice, Sound, News

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• By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad. But I wish I had known that you simply had to blow at Hulls to get rid of them. It would have saved me a few scars.

  Alison Croggon

  Blow, Thinking, Light

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• And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fall, Together, Pieces

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.336, Penguin

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• Your fingertips across my skin, The palm trees swaying in the wind, Images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, The sweetest sadness in your eyes, Clever trick... I cannot go to the ocean, I cannot drive the streets at night, I cannot wake up in the morning without you on my mind, So now you're gone and I'm haunted, And I bet you are just fine. Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life?..

  A Fine Frenzy

  Morning, Clever, Ocean

  "Almost Lover". Song by Alison Sudol (A Fine Frenzy), May 22, 2007.

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• Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Teacher, Sleep, Students

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

  Tom Waits

  Goodbye, Song, Rope

  "Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2011.

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• I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

  Alanis Morissette

  Well Known, Wells, Knows

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• A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!

  Walter Raleigh

  Song, Journey, Patches

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• In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A hymn is a controversial song - sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out...

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Art, Years

  "Show 33 - Revolt of the Fat Angel: American musicians respond to the British invaders, Part 1". Interview on radio documentary series "Pop Chronicles", digital.library.unt.edu. February 14, 1968.

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• Let the rain kiss you.
  Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
  Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
  The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
  The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
  The rain plays a little sellp-song on our roof at night-
  And I love the rain.

  Langston Hughes

  Running, Song, Spring

  Langston Hughes (2015). “Sail Away”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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