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Wanting Quotes

Tobias Wolff quote: "Want! You must want something. What do you want?"
Want! You must want something. What do you want? Tobias Wolff
Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous: it can lead us to wanting to possess a story as we possess a cup... A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth. Andre Dubus
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze. Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet. Age:..."
Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze. Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet. Age: five thousand three hundred days. Vladimir Nabokov
Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000. Mark Millar
Virgil quote: "Want of pluck shows want of blood."
Want of pluck shows want of blood. Virgil
Gary Oldman quote: "Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want..."
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that. Gary Oldman
Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up. Ziyi Zhang
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. William Blake
Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it. Stephen King
Caroline B. Cooney quote: "wanted is a good action book"
wanted is a good action book Caroline B. Cooney
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress. Chuck Palahniuk
Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend. Dan Simmons
Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes. Orison Swett Marden
Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student. Stendhal

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