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Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, renowned for his works that encapsulate the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. His most celebrated novel, 'The Great Gatsby,' is a critical and commercial success, reflecting the themes of the American Dream and the decline of the American upper class. more

“There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.”

Thinking Able Sleep Bed Committed Betrayal Insomnia Stalking Miniatures

Book:Poems 1960-2000

Source: Poems 1960-2000

“I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!”

Feels Night Black Hours Dark Insomnia

Book:Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Source: Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

“But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unless He goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!”

Bed Insomnia Tooth Fairy

Author:James J. Montague

“I'm making tapes for insomniacs to use in the future. I'm going to sell them as a kit to cure insomnia.”