“Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.”
Saul Bellow book The Adventures of Augie March
Source: The Adventures of Augie March
“It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.”
— Jonathan Franzen, book The Corrections
Source: The Corrections
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