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• People say I'm America's worst nightmare. I say I'm the American dream.

  Latrell Sprewell

  Dream, America, Worst Nightmares

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• All the dreams I dream are nightmares and those nightmares are the ones I live.

  Keanu Reeves

  Dream

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• If only the peace I feel right nowcould be stored up and released laterwhen cruelty surrounds mein the darkduring nightmares.

  Margarita Engle

  Cruelty, Feels Right, Surround

  Margarita Engle (2009). “Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba”, p.158, Macmillan

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• The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Loss, Loss Of A Child

  "Angelina Jolie IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

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• You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

  Carl Sagan

  Beautiful, Dream, Cutting

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• I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in life I don't know what I'd do. That would be the ultimate horror. The ultimate despair. If I had to meet my mother again and start all of that all over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to? Well. That would be the final nightmare. Kafka on wheels.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Mother, Real, People

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• Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

  Guy Sajer

  Happiness, Death, Time

  Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.98, Potomac Books, Inc.

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• Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

  John Grisham

  Men, Innocent Man, Serial Killer

  John Grisham (2010). “The Confession”, p.104, Random House

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• And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat or a Republican, nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don't see any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare.

  Malcolm X

  Dream, Eye, America

  "Malcolm X: 'It'll be the ballot or the bullet', stump speech". Malcolm X's speech in Detroit, Michigan, USA, speakola.com. April 12, 1964.

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• Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Squares, Roots, World

  Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press

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• My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

  Gwen Stefani

  Music, Song, Diaries

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

  Marlon Brando

  Dream, Razors, Apocalypse

  "Fictional character: Colonel Walter E. Kurtz". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.

  Stephen King

  Fun, Littles, Logic

  "Alan Wake: gaming's greatest Stephen King story" by Matthew Byrd, www.denofgeek.com. December 21, 2017.

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• Quentin Tarantino is here, star of all my sexual nightmares.

  Tina Fey

  Stars, Tarantino, Quentin

  "Golden Globes: 5 Reasons This Year's Show Will (Likely) Be a Blast" by Stacey Wilson Hunt, Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 22, 2013.

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• College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

  Judd Apatow

  Fun, School, College

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our youth are not failing the system; the system is failing our youth. Ironically, the very youth who are being treated the worst are the young people who are going to lead us out of this nightmare.

  Rachel Jackson

  People, Youth, Failing

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• I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Dream, Struggle, Usa

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• I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Marriage, Heaven

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• If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.

  Steven Gerrard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Football

  "Steven Gerrard interview: 'Only 11 heroes have played for England, and I'm not one of them'" by John Cross, www.mirror.co.uk. November 13, 2012.

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• To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.

  Byron Katie

  Monsters, Looks, Universe

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

  Eminem

  Dream

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• Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Reality, Mental Health, Torture

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• A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Occupation, May, Prison

  "The Palestinian poet who inspired JK Rowling's stance on Israel" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2015.

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• 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.

  Ned Vizzini

  Life, Sad, Depression

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• Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of empire, has brought about the nightmare Malcolm predicted. And as the Digital Age and our post-literate society implant a terrifying historical amnesia, these crimes are erased as swiftly as they are committed.

  Chris Hedges

  Historical, Age, Atrocities

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