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American singer-songwriter and actor 1949Related quotes
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.”
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)
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?”
Source: The Elephant Vanishes
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.”
Source: The Corrections
“The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.”
1960s, First Inaugural Address (1969)
“I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.”
Source: Man With Bags
“Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.”
Source: The Adventures of Augie March