“You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three”

— Jean Kerr , book Please Don't Eat the Daisies

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"Introduction"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

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Irish-American author and playwright 1922–2003

Barbara Taylor Bradford (1933) British author

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“I'm just an alcoholic who became a writer so that I would be able to stay in bed until noon.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: Jsem jen alkoholik, co se stal spisovatelem, aby mohl zůstat v posteli do poledne.

“I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.”

Charles Bukowski book Pulp

Source: Pulp

“I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance,
Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance
You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.”

Saul Williams (1972) American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor

“And you have stayed, A mile away from me, And you will stay a mile away from me. If you know what’s good for you, You could have stayed until June. ~ "June"”

Pete Yorn (1974) American musician

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“2788. If you sleep till Noon, you have no right to complain that the Days are short.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.”

Brian Keene (1967) American writer

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.”

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist

According to The American Chesterton Society http://www.chesterton.org/qmeister2/19.htm, this quotation is actually a paraphrase by John F. Kennedy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy of a passage from The Thing (1929) in which Chesterton made reference to a fence or gate erected across a road: "The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."
Misattributed

“It is my solemn duty to stay up all night researching and writing the history of these three hapless youngsters, but you may be more comfortable getting a good night's sleep. In that case, you should probably choose some other book.”

Daniel Handler book The Austere Academy

The Austere Academy (2000)

“Money is the lifeblood of startups. You stay in business until you run out of it.”

Steve Blank (1953) American businessman

Source: The Four Steps to the Epiphany (2013), p. 297

“You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three”

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