"I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup."

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"I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup."

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"Weekends are life's gift to those who hate their jobs."

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"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself."

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"Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament."

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Fennel Hudson, British Author

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"Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it."

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"Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day."

John Piper, American Clergyman

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"I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone."

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"I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God."

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"Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours."

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"I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to."

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"If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover."

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"I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City ."

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"The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode."

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"I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them."

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"Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos."

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"I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave."

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"I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup."

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