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• For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.

  Blake Crouch

  Dream, Halloween, Perfect

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• The best way to walk into a nightmare is with a smile.

  Kaza Kingsley

  Way, Walks, Best Way

  Kaza Kingsley (2010). “The Three Furies”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Writing, Giving, Wake Up

  Asbury Park NJ Press, On audiences, August 13, 1974.

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• An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Dream, Possibility, Pessimist

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• I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours

  James Cameron

  Mean, Eight, Hours

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• The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Divorce, Car

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, film.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?

  Melissa Marr

  Dream, Mean, Light

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• Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know the taste of happiness.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Light, Darkness

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.7, Image

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• The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

  Karl Marx

  Past, History, Brain

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  I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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• My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Patriotic, Long, Fellows

  Remarks upon taking oath of office, 9 Aug. 1974

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• Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

  Byron Katie

  Reality, Thinking, Stories

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• Listen, you. Don't threaten me. I could make your life a nightmare. He put his hand in front of her face and unfolded three fingers as he said, I'm F-B-I. She smiled. It wasn't the reaction he expected. You want to talk nightmares? she said. She put her hand up to his face and unfolded her three fingers. I'm I-R-S.

  Julie Garwood

  Hands, Three, Want

  Julie Garwood (2012). “A Girl Named Summer”, p.151, Penguin

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• The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state, I have said again and again that, when there is an apparatus for censorship that filters all writing, an apparatus comes into being in every writer's mind that says: "Don't write this, they won't allow it to be published." But the true writer must ignore these murmurings. The true writer must write. In the end, it will be published one day, on the condition that the writer writes the truth and does not dissemble.

  Simin Behbahani

  Islamic, Writing, Mind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm a little skeptical of so-called narco fiction, I have to say, though some writers I admire may have written some narco fiction. You feel the dread and the atmosphere in Yuri Herrera's extraordinary novels, but you'd never say that what he writes is narco fiction. The same goes for Martin Solares's novels, inspired by the nightmare city of Tampico, where he's from. Valeria Luiselli, Álvaro Enrigue, I know that they're deeply affected by what goes on in Mexico, but their wonderful writing points in another direction, though not necessarily always and only.

  Francisco Goldman

  Writing, Atmosphere, Inspired

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Contentment, Needs, Inexplicable

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• You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

  Stephen Rea

  Knows, Ifs, Who You Are

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• So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Night, Ideas

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• We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Time, Mean, Night

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• Consciousness is nature's nightmare.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Consciousness

  "Tears and Saints". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.

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• As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.

  Anne Rice

  Night, Shadow, Arms

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.248, Ballantine Books

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• Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.

  Bryan Adams

  Dream, Reality, Men

  Song: Heat Of The Night, 1993

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• Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone elses hands.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Thinking, Hands, Ties

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• What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Joy

  Bertolt Brecht (1965). “The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays”, p.158, Grove Press

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• I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.

  Jared Padalecki

  And Love, Down And, Ships

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