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  • It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

    Gilles Deleuze, FeÌl?ix Guattari (2004). “Anti-Oedipus”, p.122, A&C Black
  • I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

    Media   People   Guy  
    Interview with Jed Babbin, humanevents.com. February 2, 2009.
  • These ante meridiem cats, insomniacs... Four in the mornin' we throwin back some Cognac juice.

    Rap   Cat   Hip Hop  
  • Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep.

    Funny   Humorous   Sleep  
    "Fictional character: The Great Man". "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break", www.imdb.com. October 10, 1941.
  • What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?

    Insomnia   Kind   Endure  
    Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books
  • The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

    Sleep   Insomnia   World  
    Leonard Cohen (2003). “The Favorite Game: A Novel”, Vintage Books
  • I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street.

  • Montovani? They play Montovani to insomniacs that don't respond to strong drugs

  • I'm kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.

    "Style & Substance: Monica Keena". Interview with Farrah Weinstein, nypost.com. September 17, 2000.
  • As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.

    Sleep   Trying   Bed  
    Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.379, Open Road Media
  • you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in the dark but coarse and ordinary otherwise; you have to examine such minerals in the absence of light to discover their beauty, you tell yourself.

    Dark   Night   Light  
    Joyce Carol Oates (1991). “Heat and other stories”, E P Dutton
  • I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.

  • I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.

    Night   Listening   Bed  
  • Choices are like connecting highways. They all take you to the same place. Some just take longer to get there.

    "Fictional character: Frankie". "Dream for an Insomniac", www.imdb.com. 1996.
  • Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.

    Believe   Insomnia   Race  
    FaceBook post by Jonathan Lethem from Jul 01, 2016
  • I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.

    Fall   Sleep   Long  
  • Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate with the insomniac state. Much here is fascinating, and much is upsetting; here is a cri de coeur from a lifetime insomniac that is sure to appeal to the vast army of fellow insomniacs the world over.

    Army   Hands   Upset  
  • I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.

    Children   Nice   Night  
    "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.
  • Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

    Dog   Night   Giving  
  • My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

    "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 4, 2002.
  • I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.

    Thinking   Ideas   Voice  
  • We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.

    Lonely   Sky   Joy  
    Fanny Howe (2000). “Indivisible”, Semiotext
  • He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.

    Sleep   Night   Insomnia  
  • Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.

    Sleep   Insomniac   Died  
    Garrison Keillor (2011). “Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel”, p.6, Faber & Faber
  • Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.

    Michael Cunningham (2011). “By Nightfall”, p.14, HarperCollins UK
  • Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

    David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.39, Hachette UK
  • Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.

  • I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].

  • I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

    Night   Mind   Insomniac  
    Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
  • Any highway . . . they all take you to the same place, don't they?

    Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
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