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Don Marquis quote: "Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are..."
Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. Don Marquis
One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out! Louis L'Amour
Jane Austen quote: "Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want..."
Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives. Jane Austen
Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. That's some catch, that catch-22. Joseph Heller
You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth? Kurt Vonnegut
Mary Oliver quote: "You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth..."
You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the worlddoesn't need any more of that sound. Mary Oliver
Roald Dahl quote: "I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca."
I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca. Roald Dahl
He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa. Augusten Burroughs
Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel. John Piper
If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me. Jodi Picoult
Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. Umberto Eco
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. Simone de Beauvoir
He thinks money spent on a home is money wasted. He's lived too much in hotels. Never the best hotels, of course. Second-rate hotels. He doesn't understand a home. He doesn't feel at home in it. And yet, he wants a home. He's even proud of having this shabby place. He loves it here. Eugene O'Neill
Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair. Thomas Merton
Margaret Mitchell quote: "I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it."
I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it. Margaret Mitchell

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