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> [“Alarm clocks unset, their taunts silent. Crystals flashing dire red, as if to warn of seconds that dwell, of years that fleet.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/alarm-clocks-unset-their-taunts-silent-crystals-flashing-dire-red-as/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

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> [“Old movies already in progress, already passed over twice, watched with indifference until orchestras swell over happy endings, new beginnings. The images black and white, the lie white. (Ours is a world of heroes and of winners, and rarely are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/old-movies-already-in-progress-already-passed-over-twice-watched-with/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

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## Other authors on Insomnia

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-j-beveridge-10520.jpg) Shelby Harris 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/insomnia/shelby-harris/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/insomnia/william-shakespeare/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-chuck-palahniuk-24118.jpg) Chuck Palahniuk 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/insomnia/chuck-palahniuk/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-siri-hustvedt-85731.jpg) Siri Hustvedt 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/insomnia/siri-hustvedt/)

## More by J. Andrew Schrecker

> [“I've never been a good representation of me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/i-ve-never-been-a-good-representation-of-me/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

> [“Let us shed digital skin, make Mecca of faces. Let us be mirrors facing mirrors, the spaces we contain made infinite by one another's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/let-us-shed-digital-skin-make-mecca-of-faces-let-us-be-mirrors-facing/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

> [“What I want is for you to touch me in ways that hands and teeth and skin cannot.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/what-i-want-is-for-you-to-touch-me-in-ways-that-hands-and-teeth-and/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

> [“Women born works of art, men doomed to spend entire lifetimes trying to create just one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/women-born-works-of-art-men-doomed-to-spend-entire-lifetimes-trying/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

> [“The kind of love I seek is a folie a deux.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/the-kind-of-love-i-seek-is-a-folie-a-deux/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

> [“How we devour one another's culture, do so without shame--ideas like water, free flowing and able to take on other forms. Able to flood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/how-we-devour-one-another-s-culture-do-so-without-shame-ideas-like/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

> [“Nostalgia an excuse not to live, kills us all in the end.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/nostalgia-an-excuse-not-to-live-kills-us-all-in-the-end/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

> [“There's a lot of humiliation in living, but that's okay, for if the gods are always laughing, then surely at times they must be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/there-s-a-lot-of-humiliation-in-living-but-that-s-okay-for-if-the/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

> [“Alarm clocks unset, their taunts silent. Crystals flashing dire red, as if to warn of seconds that dwell, of years that fleet.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/alarm-clocks-unset-their-taunts-silent-crystals-flashing-dire-red-as/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

> [“What other nations fail to recognize in us--our consumerism--is that we don't simply want to own everything, we want to be everything.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/what-other-nations-fail-to-recognize-in-us-our-consumerism-is-that-we/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

> [“There are worse things than dying alone or afraid, such as dying unafraid, or dying twice, or dying to live.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/there-are-worse-things-than-dying-alone-or-afraid-such-as-dying/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

> [“We aren't always kind to one another, but want to be, and I believe that is the same thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/we-aren-t-always-kind-to-one-another-but-want-to-be-and-i-believe/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

> [“I once found a phoenix charred in its own ashes. I brought it home with me, wept through the night, and then tossed it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/i-once-found-a-phoenix-charred-in-its-own-ashes-i-brought-it-home/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

> [“And yes, life is mostly boring, and we each go through it feeling ugly or like a failure, but sometimes the sun cuts through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/and-yes-life-is-mostly-boring-and-we-each-go-through-it-feeling-ugly/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

> [“Old movies already in progress, already passed over twice, watched with indifference until orchestras swell over happy endings, new beginnings. The images black and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-andrew-schrecker/old-movies-already-in-progress-already-passed-over-twice-watched-with/)

[J. Andrew Schrecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-andrew-schrecker/)

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