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A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

Ray Bradbury
Good Night, Sleep, Chocolate Ice Cream
FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Apr 10, 2014

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

Ray Bradbury
Running, Writing, Sleep
Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.

Ray Bradbury
Jobs, Sleep, Giving
Ray Bradbury (1973). “Mars and the mind of man”

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

Ray Bradbury
Book, Writing, Sleep

I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.

Ray Bradbury
Rain, Sleep, Night

...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.

Ray Bradbury
Summer, Children, Sleep
Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.

Ray Bradbury
Sleep, Animal, Tree
Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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