“I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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“I do remember that I never wanted to go to bed, to go to sleep, for fear I’d miss something.”
Source: My Heart Belongs (1976), p. 20
Context: Never, never, never can I say I had a frustrating childhood. It was all joy. Mother used to say she never had seen such a happy child — that I awakened each morning with a smile. I don’t remember that, but I do remember that I never wanted to go to bed, to go to sleep, for fear I’d miss something.
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“I can sleep like a champion. I once slept through a smoke alarm going off. For three hours.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
Être votre voisin, c'est comme dormir avec un éléphant; quelque douce et placide que soit la bête, on subit chacun de ses mouvements et de ses grognements.
Addressing the Press Club in Washington, D.C. (25 March 1969) - Audio clip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trudeau_sleeping_with_an_elephant.ogg