“Most harm is done by people who are awake.”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) British comedian
The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, May 16, 2008
“But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be. That if we are living as we were this week, that we had to be awake with the people who are still dancing.”
You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)
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