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American singer-songwriter and actor 1949Related quotes
“That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Source: The Kite Runner
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.”
John Green book The Fault in Our Stars
Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 125
Compare Ernest Hemingway, speaking about the process of going bankrupt: "'Gradually and then suddenly.'"
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Sei il mio pensiero che felicemente al mattino mi sveglia e che di notte dolcemente mi addormenta.
Source: prevale.net
“You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?”
Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes
Source: The Elephant Vanishes
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Variant: You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
“It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.”
Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections
Source: The Corrections
“The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.”
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
1960s, First Inaugural Address (1969)
“I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.”
Eugéne Ionesco (1909–1994) Romanian playwright
Source: Man With Bags
“Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.”
Saul Bellow book The Adventures of Augie March
Source: The Adventures of Augie March