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Wants Quotes (page 281)

Philippa’s letter, from an afflicted conscience, was not very much longer. … if I don’t look for him, no one else will. You know I’m sorry. But I couldn’t leave that little thing to wither away by itself Don’t be sad. We’re all going to come back. And you can teach him Two Legs and I Wot a Tree, and save him the top of the milk for his blackberry pie. He’ll never know, if we’re quick, that nobody wanted him.… Which had, Kate considered as she scrubbed off her tears, a ring of unlikely... Dorothy Dunnett
Keith Richards quote: "Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?"
Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger? Keith Richards
Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it? Barbara Kingsolver
I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. Harper Lee
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't, think in terms of an actual job; who seems to imagine that youth and brains and willingness will simply summon an occupation, the precise and perfect nature of which will reveal itself in its own time. Michael Cunningham
Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't. Candace Bushnell
One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep. Arnold Bennett
Charles Bukowski quote: "There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I'm..."
There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I'm too tough for him. Charles Bukowski
What on earth did you want with an early Christian sarcophagus, Elliot?"To put myself in it, my dear fellow. It was of very good design, and I thought it would balance the font on the other side of the entrance, but those early Christians were stumpy little fellows and I shouldn't have fitted in. I wasn't going to lie there till the Last Trump with my knees doubled up to my chin like a foetus. Most uncomfortable. W. Somerset Maugham
In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions. Joseph Brodsky
They can pump whatever they want into my arm but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live. Suzanne Collins
Milan Kundera quote: "I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and..."
I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself Milan Kundera
Ernest Hemingway quote: "THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIOYou'll be one. Everybody gets..."
THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIOYou'll be one. Everybody gets what they want. That's what they always tell me. Ernest Hemingway
I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday. Louisa May Alcott
But every time I feel bad, I try to remind myself about what this little kid said to me once. She was loaded with personality-so ugly she was cute. And you knew she knew it too. "Carrie?" she asked. "What if i'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?" That question still kind of blows me away. I mean, isn't it the truth? Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that... Candace Bushnell

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