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Quote by Jessamyn West
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. - Jes

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. – Jessamyn West

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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. – Jessamyn West

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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. – Jessamyn West

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Humor
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Other Quotes from
Sleep
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When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away,
And in a dream as in a fairy bark
Drift on and on through the enchanted dark
To purple daybreak–little thought we pay
To that sweet bitter world we know by day. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Sleep

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. – Clifton Fadiman

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Sleep

Sleep… Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death. – Author unknown, various wordings commonly attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfell

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Sleep

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. – Benjamin Franklin

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Sleep

Random Quotes

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. – Jules Renard

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alone

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you – you have to go out and get it! – Harvey Fierstein

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work

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. – James Buchan

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Politics

We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my childrens life. It may save someone you love. And its very important. – Jim Valvano

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Money