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Harry S. Truman quote: "You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!"
You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog! Harry S. Truman
Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and Me. Whatever I do, he wants to do,"Where are you going today?" says Pooh:"Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too. Let's go together," says Pooh, says he."Let's go together," says Pooh. A. A. Milne
Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless. Ray Bradbury
The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages ; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil. Bertrand Russell
When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and I look upon time as no more than an idea, and I consider eternity as another possibility, and I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular, and each name a comfortable music in the mouth, tending, as all music does, toward silence, and each body as... Mary Oliver
He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies! Simone de Beauvoir
An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it."
If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it. Chuck Palahniuk
J. D. Salinger quote: "who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody."
who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody. J. D. Salinger
Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses endurate. Both go mouldy. Julian Barnes
William Gass quote: "It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and..."
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word William Gass
As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. As always the terror of not being able to finish, of accelerating into a brick wall. As always, the marvelous joyful nervy feeling of journey begun. Stephen King
Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice. Paul Auster
Elvis Costello quote: "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's..."
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. Elvis Costello
Walter Bagehot quote: "Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what..."
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. Walter Bagehot

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