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“Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“A non-month. Unfocused and unfelt, a lukewarm protoplasm of a month.”
― A Wild Sheep Chase
― A Wild Sheep Chase
“As a grown woman, I would have said to my father that there are true things in this world observed only by a single set of eyes.”
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
“In fact, if not for the plaque-WHALE GENITAL: MALE—no one would have taken it to be a whale's penis... It bore no resemblance to my penis, nor to any penis I'd ever seen. What was worse, the severed penis exuded a singular, somehow unspeakable aura of sadness.”
― A Wild Sheep Chase
― A Wild Sheep Chase
“OH, SLEEP. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness. I was not a narcoleptic-I never fell asleep when I didn't want. to. I was more of a somniac. A somnophile. I'd always loved sleeping. It was one thing my mother and I had enjoyed doing together when I was a child. She was not the type to sit and watch me draw or read me books or play games or go for walks in the park or bake brownies. We got along best when we were asleep.”
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