“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Variant: I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human.
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“I don't know if I can't sleep because I am trying to recall the objects, or whether I struggle to recall them because I can't sleep.”
— Herta Müller, book The Hunger Angel
Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 26
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German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist 1953Related quotes
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Heard mountains moan in their sleep. By daylight,
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