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Bill Hayes

Insomniac City

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  • Kristian Rank Nielsenhas quoted5 years ago
    I used to think that the only thing worse than having insomnia was having insomnia next to someone who falls fast asleep and stays soundlessly so till morning.
  • d68has quoted5 years ago
    “I just want to enjoy your nextness and nearness,” O says.
    He puts his ear to my chest and listens to my heart and counts the beats.
  • Michael Carmonahas quoted5 years ago
    “I don’t so much fear death as I do wasting life.”
    Oliver Sacks
  • chuwenhas quoted5 years ago
    Are you conscious of your thoughts before language embodies them?”
  • Lliahas quoted6 years ago
    Laughter rises. Hearing happy, laughing people is no cure for insomnia but has an ameliorative effect on brokenheartedness
  • rissaxeniahas quoted6 years ago
    I suppose it’s a cliché to say you’re glad to be alive, that life is short, but to say you’re glad to be not dead requires a specific intimacy with loss that comes only with age or deep experience. One has to know not simply what dying is like, but to know death itself, in all its absoluteness.
  • b9043605858has quoted3 years ago
    place where one comes to reinvent himself.
  • Alohas quoted4 years ago
    To be a New Yorker is to be away from the city and feel like you are missing something
  • Alohas quoted4 years ago
    In those early days of grief, short on sleep, forgetting to eat, I felt as though I were in a liminal state, not quite alive myself, which made me feel remarkably close to Steve
  • Omour Farukhas quoted4 years ago
    My new apartment was a virtual tree house, a tiny top-floor walk-up at eye level with the ailanthus boughs.
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