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I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?
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want
fun
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Neil Gaiman |
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I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I want.
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want
obsession
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Sara Gruen |
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Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it's going to kill us.
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want
wanting
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Donna Tartt |
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Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.
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want
satisfaction
truth
inspirational
who-we-are
balance
need
finding-yourself
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Brandon Sanderson |
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If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.
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want
pain
heart
still
get
suffer
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Dan Millman |
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Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
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want
more
palahniuk
dissatisfaction
lullaby
consumerism
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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"Kiss me again," he says, drunk and foolish. "Kiss me until I am sick of it." --
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want
kiss
foolish
sick
drunk
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Holly Black |
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The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.
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want
risk
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Lisa Kleypas |
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
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want
greed
work
labor
weariness
need
vice
evil
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Voltaire |
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I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.
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want
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Margaret Atwood |
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You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic...someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath.
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want
romance
love
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Lisa Kleypas |
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I just want you to be happy. If that's with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.
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want
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John Green |
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It was a kingdom of dreams -- a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.
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want
kingdome
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Judith McNaught |
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People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.
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want
solitude
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Patrick Süskind |
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[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right-that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)
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want
grief
suffering
love
buddhism
desire
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Anne Lamott |
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To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.
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want
struggle
letting
reject
to
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Jon Kabat-Zinn |
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Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.
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want
physical
home
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Henry David Thoreau |
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"Our eyes meet, and something dangerous sparks. I remind myself. "Kiss me again," he says, drunk and foolish. "Kiss me until I am sick of it." I feel those words, feel them like a kick to the stomach. He sees my expression and laughs, a sound full of mockery. I can't tell which of us he's laughing at. After a moment, his eyes flutter closed. His voice falls to a whisper, as though he's talking to himself. "If you're the sickness, I suppose you can't also be the cure." He drifts off to sleep, but I am wide awake."
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want
kiss
hate
drunk
desire
sickness
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Holly Black |
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It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out. A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.
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want
world
heart
inward
inward-significance
otherness
outward-appearances
grandeur
understand
help
self
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Donna Tartt |
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...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.
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want
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Jodi Picoult |
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There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.
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want
way
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Donna Woolfolk Cross |
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But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?
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want
need
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Mary Balogh |
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As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.
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want
need
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Jeannette Walls |
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INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD Janey dreams of cocks. Janey sees cocks instead of objects. Janey has to fuck. This is the way Sex drives Janey crazy: Before Janey fucks, she keeps her wants in cells. As soon as Janey's fucking she wants to be adored as much as possible at the same time as, its other extreme, ignored as much as possible. More than this: Janey can no longer perceive herself wanting. Janey is Want. It's worse than this: If Janey gets sexually rejected her body becomes sick. If she doesn't get who she wants she naturally revolts.
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want
sex
eurydice
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Kathy Acker |
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I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.
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want
woman
what-i-want
feeling
intensity
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Markus Zusak |
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I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly for years. So why do I feel so unsatisfied? Everyone is merry. They haven't a care in the world. And perhaps that is it. How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much.
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want
the-sweet-far-thing
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Libba Bray |
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It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants
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want
greed
restraint
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Louisa May Alcott |
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But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get
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want
life
get
wish
desire
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Anne Lamott |
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And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.
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mankind
want
greed
humanity
learning
life
endeavors
things-that-matter
ladder
materialism
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H. Rider Haggard |
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I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked body, your skin. your mouth, your hands...--I want you like an animal...or a whore.
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want
love
dominique-francon
howard-roark
the-fountainhead
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Ayn Rand |
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In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
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want
rome
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George Eliot |
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...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.
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want
sorrow
distract
empty
fond
fondness
have
sigh
seek
miss
remember
reminiscence
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Robin Hobb |
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If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make... So-- as I recall, the official philosophical answer is that free will doesn't exist. Only the illusion of free will, because the causes of hour behavior are so complex that we can't trace them back. If you've got one line of dominoes knocking each other down, one by one, then you can always say, look, this domino fell because that one pushed it. But when you have an infinite number of dominoes that can be traced back in an infinite number of directions, you can never find where the causal chain begins. So you think, That domino fell because it wanted to... Even if there is no such thing as free will, we have to treat each other as if there were free will in order to live together in society.
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want
freedom
philosophy
dominoes
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Orson Scott Card |
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My fingers draw up her back and tangle into her hair. she repeats. Our lips crush together, our bodies pressed tight. An inferno of lips and hands and movements that continues to grow in heat. The blanket falls away as Rachel slides her legs so that she straddles me. On the verge of burning up completely, I groan and cling to her small frame. Her hands drift under my shirt, leaving a singeing trail. We've become a wildfire. Almost unstoppable. I kiss her neck and the beautiful sounds escaping her mouth encourage me further. My hands skim under her shirt, up her back, linger for seconds near her bra, and I gently nip her ear when I feel lace. Images pour into my mind of what she'd look like with her shirt off, then her jeans. My fist traps strands of her hair. And because I do, I kiss her fully on the mouth--nothing left to the imagination. Every fantasy becomes a reality with that one embrace.
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want
kiss
undress
rachel-young
isaiah
intimate
never
separate
touch
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Katie McGarry |
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"What do you want ?" It was a hard question, especially if I had to bat en down the sarcasm. I mean, there was the beauty pageant answer of world peace, although I'd probably have to render it in the beauty pageant spelling of world peas."
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want
world-peace
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Rachel Cohn |
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"And it certainly did seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach. "The prettiest are always further!" she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off."
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want
grass-is-greener
wonderland
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Lewis Carroll |
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Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything.
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hopelessness
want
hope
nursing-home
spawning
retirement
office
career
duty
dying
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Donna Tartt |
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What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight toward a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?...If your deepest self is singing and coaxing you straight toward the bonfire, is it better to turn away? Stop your ears with wax? Ignore all the perverse glory your heart is screaming at you? Set yourself on the course that will lead you dutifully towards the norm, reasonable hours and regular medical check-ups, stable relationships and steady career advancement the New York Times and brunch on Sunday, all with the promise of being somehow a better person? Or...is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?
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want
passion
identity
destructiveness
health
need
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Donna Tartt |
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You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.
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want
then
going
there
start
to
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J.D. Salinger |
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Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness. The night is coming. Watch and pray.
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want
policemen
jail
idleness
misery
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Richard Llewellyn |
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As long as I'm holding you, all of my dreams have already come true.
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want
sex
love
gabriel-prescott
hannah-grey
desire
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Christina Dodd |
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"I don't deserve you. You know that, don't you?" "When are you gonna realize you're one of the good guys?" When I don't answer, she pulls my head down to hers. "My body is yours tonight, Alex," she whispers against my lips. "Do you want it?" "God, yes."
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want
brittany-ellis
good-guy
intimate
deserve
yes
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Simone Elkeles |