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"In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay."

"Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go."

"The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation."
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"I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out."


"When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?""


"It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself."


"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out."


"I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out."


"When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year.I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety."


"I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'"
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