Variant: While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
Source: Eating Animals
“There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.”
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South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Priz… 1931Related quotes
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