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• So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. Why should I be the one to dream this nightmare?

  Ralph Ellison

  Dream, Writing, Ideas

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.592, Vintage

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• I could see her get all nervous but she was also excited. Nightmares have that quality, don't they?

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Quality, Nervous, Excited

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• Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you're waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their moldering fingerprints all across your day.

  Mike Carey

  Heart, Wake Up, Coherence

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• What happened when you woke up?" "I was having a dream. I don’t know what it was, but when I woke up, I had this awful realization that I was awake. It hit me like a brick in the groin." "Like a brick in the groin, I see." "I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." "And what is that nightmare, Craig?" "Life." "Life is a nightmare." "Yes.

  Ned Vizzini

  Dream, Wake Up, Realization

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• Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sweet, Children, Father

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're not awake, and you can't move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Moving, Teeth, Crumbling

  "Hot Guy to Know: Nicholas D'Agosto". Interview with Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. August 8, 2011.

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• Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the "nightmare of the day." Welcome to incarnate experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, Needs, Tvs

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• Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.

  Grant Morrison

  Grief, Writing, Joy

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.

  Del Howison

  Dream, Cutting, Flesh

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• The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

  Karl Marx

  Generations, Tradition

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• Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

  Marilyn Manson

  Growing Up, Taken, Devil

  "A Dangerous Man? Marilyn Manson Says He’s Become His Own Nightmares". Interview with Dan Aquilante, nypost.com. November 17, 2000.

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• Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspirational, Poor, Terror

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• I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

  Emmanuel Jal

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Talking

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• I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

  Ian MacKaye

  Track, Decision, Want

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

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• One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Creatures

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2016). “The Summer Tree: Book One of the The Fionavar Tapestry”, p.253, Hachette UK

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• To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

  Dick Cavett

  New York, Holiday, Traffic

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.116, Henry Holt and Company

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• It's a Vietnamese soup that answers the question, 'What happens when a former child soldier pours hot rain water over fish nightmares.' It's delicious and I can't stop eating it, that's what happens.

  Kyle Kinane

  Children, Rain, Water

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• A Pakistan businessman is claiming that John Walker Lindh is gay and that he was his lover. Say what you will about Lindh, but when this guy goes to play for the other team - he goes all the way ... So Lindh may be both a terrorist and a gay man. That may be John Ashcroft's worst nightmare.

  Jay Leno

  Team, Gay, Men

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• It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha called it "the nightmare of the day."

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Agony, Perfect

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• My dates are nightmares! If she were awake, alive, not on parole and truly single that would start. Place, time and what we do matters little if I'm out with the right woman.

  Vantile Whitfield

  Alive, Littles, Matter

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• I had the nightmare when I was like nine or ten or something, I always remembered pieces of that nightmare, the feeling from it. I've always wanted to make a horror film and so I always kept thinking about that nightmare.

  David Robert Mitchell

  Thinking, Feelings, Pieces

  Source: collider.com

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• So you have it, you awaken from it and you can recall, in detail, what just happened, that's a nightmare. So it's very different from a dream where you generally don't wake up from it and you don't have this dysphoric emotion.

  Shelby Harris

  Dream, Details, Different

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Die Welt der Kunst & Fantasie ist die wahre, the rest is a nightmare.

  Arno Hintjens

  Dies

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• I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Honesty, Believe, Home

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Love, Men, Names

  On being sworn in as President, 9 August 1974: G. J. Lankevich 'Gerald R. Ford' (1977)

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