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• I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

  Jacques Barzun

  Sleep, Fighting, Giving

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• Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Stress, Thinking, Light

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• Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room.

  Andrew Weil

  Lying, People, Trying

  "Sleep Tips For A Younger, More Vibrant You" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!

  Bill Cosby

  Birthday, Opportunity, Age

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• Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.

  Louis C. K.

  Trying, Sometimes, Shows

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• Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Eight, Weather, Hot

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.

  Gayle Forman

  Dream, Sleep, People

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.86, Penguin

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• I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.

  Edie Falco

  Afternoon, Able

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• Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.

  A. A. Milne

  Two, Winnie The Pooh Life, Winni The Pooh

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• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

  Ovid

  Men, Alcohol, Facts

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• Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn’t mind.

  Gayle Forman

  Mind, Feels, Never Ending

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.86, Penguin

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• I love my bed. It is larger than a desk and better designed to hold books and papers. It is softer than a desk and better designed for naps. It is the center of all good things. And day or night, everyone knows where to find me.

  Cathleen Schine

  Book, Night, Bed

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• I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.

  Dan Chaon

  Sleep, Night, Afternoon

  Believer Interview, www.believermag.com.

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• I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Hard Times, Past, Hard

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• Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Two

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Afternoon, Sometimes, Muse

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• I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck. He is sweeter than soap. He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace, which can't even bark.

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Necks, Body

  Mary Oliver (2005). “New and Selected Poems, Volume Two”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.

  Leverett Saltonstall

  Home, Should Have, Long

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• You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps.

  Polly Horvath

  Sunday, Knows

  Polly Horvath (2008). “My One Hundred Adventures”, p.27, Schwartz & Wade

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• Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Weather, Had Enough, Time Of Day

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.104, Macmillan

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• Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

  Max Lucado

  Motivational, Hurt, Children

  Max Lucado (1999). “When God Whispers Your Name”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ambition, Garden, Next Day

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.119, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

  Andy Rooney

  Happiness, Being Happy, Flower

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• The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.

  Robert Duvall

  Success, Ideas, People

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• That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Meditation, Needs

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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