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"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."
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"I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it."
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"Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?"
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"Standards are a little crazy these days. I think that, when you go to sleep, as long as you're happy with the way you are and the way you look, that's the most important thing. I think it's an internal thing. As long as you feel good with who you are and comfortable with what you're wearing, but not if that's the most important thing."
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"We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book."
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"I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep."
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"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."
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"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."
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"Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up."
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"I'll sleep when I'm dead."
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"Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep."
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"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."
Politics
"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."
Reading
"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."
Books
"The downtrodden are the great creators of slang."
Lifestyle
"A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual."
Writing
"Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room."
Peace
"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."
Art
"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."
Money
"He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child."
Now
"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."
Age
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