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• Yesterday in Florida, President Obama kissed a woman on the cheek after she told him he looks good. Which explains why last night, Michelle made him sleep on Air Mattress One.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Sleep, Night, Florida

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• The greatest thing about my house was that I was in the far end of it and I could make as much noise as I wanted. By the time I moved out, I had a full-sized piano, two full-sized organs, bits and pieces of a drum kit, and a whole computer set up for Pro Tools. I had this mattress in between the piano and the organ. That was the only walking room.

  Zach Condon

  Two, Piano, House

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress.

  Warren Buffett

  Want, Millions

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Everybody knows how much time Fang spends in bed. A local store that gives a 30 days' trial on mattresses gives Fang only 15 days.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Giving, Sloth

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• AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground.

  Emily Dickinson

  Yellow, Waiting, Sunrise

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.760, Harvard University Press

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• On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid environmentalists to hate chainsaws even though they snuggle into a mattress supported by a black walnut bedstead.

  Joel Salatin

  Hate, Animal, Disrespect

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• Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Ties, People, Parent

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.26, Penguin

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• I like those blow-up beds. "This becomes a full size bed in three minutes!" Well, a mattress kicks your ass. Zero seconds. "Yeah, but you can store this thing." You can store a bed, too - in the bedroom.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Zero, Humor

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• She was on the far side, leaving two cold feet of mattress between them. He knew that she'd fall asleep like that... and then gradually move over until she was plastered against him. Then he could go to sleep, too.

  Patricia Briggs

  Moving, Fall, Sleep

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.178, Penguin

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• Tell me about yourself." "Myself?" He looks confused. "Yes," I say, patting the mattress. "You know all there is to know," he says, sitting beside me. "Not true," I say. "Where were you born? What's your favourite season? Anything." "Here. Florida," he says. "I remember a woman in a red dress with curly brown hair. Maybe she was my mother, I'm not sure. And summer. What about you?" The last part is said with a smile. He smiles so infrequently that I consider each one a trophy.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Summer, Mother, Confused

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• Grover started to sniffle and I figured if I didn't cheer him up he'd either start bawling or chewing up my mattress. He tends to eat household objects whenever he gets upset.

  Rick Riordan

  Cheer, Upset, Chewing

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Sometimes the autobiographical link in each story is very literal, like I did work at The Texas School for the Blind, and I did once lose a mattress out of the back of a friend's truck.

  Arthur Bradford

  School, Texas, Stories

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Messengers, Slave

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• Betrayal was a stone beneath a mattress of thr bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

  Jodi Picoult

  Betrayal, Forgiving, Stones

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• How are you in the profession of protecting people without knowing who I am? I’ve been told I have one of the most recognizable faces in the world. (Aiden) Wow…just out of curiosity, when you go to bed at night, do you find yourself ousted off the mattress by that ego? (Leta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Night, Who I Am, Knowing

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• A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.

  William Powell

  Eye, Night, Light

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, "Postscript", p. 157, 1971.

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• His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.

  Angela Carter

  Sweet, Heart, Night

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• Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't underneath it

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Light, Hands, Grace

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.420, Scholastic Inc.

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• I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.

  Mary Hoffman

  Girl, Thinking, Promise

  Mary Hoffman (2010). “Stravaganza: City of Masks”, p.217, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

  Bill Bryson

  Travel, Fascination, Bunk

  Bill Bryson (2010). “A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike”, p.104, Random House

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• I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

  Linda Pastan

  Bed, Would Be, Absence

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• 2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dream, Horse, Beer

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the mattress. Yes," I said. "I think it was. Certainly, it's written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning's hardly started.

  Ian Rankin

  Lying, Book, Thinking

  Ian Rankin (2014). “Knots and Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel”, p.170, Macmillan

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• I settled at Cold Mountain long ago Already it seems like ages Wandering free I roam the woods and streams Lingering to watch things be themselves Men don't come this far into the mountains Where white clouds gather and billow Dry grass makes a comfortable mattress The blue sky is a fine quilt Happy to pillow my head on the rock I leave heaven and earth to endless change

  Hanshan

  Quilts, Men, Rocks

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