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Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.

Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern

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Robert Penn Warren
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Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Robert Penn Warren: life dates 1905 to 1989. Wikidata Q312720, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312720 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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