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“We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.”

Sometimes Problem Lying Night Pay Wonder Awake Awake At Night Money Problem

Author:Maj Sjowall

“The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as to their rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in their power lies, so that when death comes they may feel that humanity is in some degree better because they lived.”

“Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I was wearing the finger out. What was wrong was very simple. Sometimes her life and mine fell on the same day.”

Sometimes Lying Night Simple Too Much Wife Mines Fingers Finals Awake

Book:Stories in the Worst Way

Source: Stories in the Worst Way

“The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by using mass communication techniques.. .Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody, he could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences.”

“I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.”

Trying Years Sometimes Would Be Lying Night Imagine Periods Odd Awake Being The Best Seventies Awake At Night

Author:Michael Dirda

“You can't think about what you're going to do. It just gets in the way. You have to be just available for life, otherwise you're not bringing anything to the party. So I don't lie awake thinking about what I'm going to do workwise. There's just too much going on.”

Thinking Way Lying Party Too Much Available Awake Don't Lie I Don't Lie

Author:Bill Murray

“I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.”

Feels Lying Night Games Player Sorry Awake Brooding Awake At Night

Author:Magnus Carlsen

“And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.”

Long Art Stills Lying Voice Atheism Dear Awake Pleasant Guests Ashes Long Ago Grey Handful Nightingales Old Car

Author:Callimachus

“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.”

Lying Sleep Emotion Wise Words Awake Awake At Night Good Night Sleep Worldly Wisdom

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.”

Used Lying Night Silence Listening Noise Awake Awake At Night

Author:Muriel Spark

“I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.”

Children Used Lying Wall Terror Entertainment Stores Awake Toys Blank Furniture

Book:The Yellow Wall-paper

Source: The Yellow Wall-paper

“Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and cry in the morning-.”

Persons Lying Night Morning Cry Awake Sentimental Sentimentality

Book:The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales

Source: The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales

“Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.”

Ifs Doe Home Happens Lying Night Culture Walks Teach Awake Cheat Vegas Cheater

Author:Tom Shadyac

“As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.”

Mean Lying Morning Worry Four Lucky Clock Novelists Awake Don't Lie I Don't Lie

Author:David Nicholls