“Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Context: p>As a man and woman meet and love forthwith.
Perhaps there are moments of awakening,
Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in whichWe more than awaken, sit on the edge of sleep,
As on an elevation, and behold
The academies like structures in a mist.</p
“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
Variant: Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.
Source: Dune
20-Feb-2009, Hull Daily Mail
Waiting for news on Jimmy Bullard's knee injury. Unfortunately, it turned out Bullard wasn't even pregnant.
“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
Statement made after the attack on Pearl Harbor by Yamamoto as portrayed in the film Tora! Tora! Tora!, this is one of the most quoted remarks attributed to him. Though it is thought that it summarizes his sentiments well, a definite source for this quote has never been provided. William Safire wrote that there is no printed evidence to support this quote. Safire's Political Dictionary, page 666. http://books.google.com/books?id=c4UoX6-Sv1AC&pg=PA666 For more information see the Wikipedia article "Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote".
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(1837-1) (Vol. 49) Subjects for Pictures. Third Series. I. The Awakening of Endymion
The Monthly Magazine
“Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis