The desire to be liked is acceptable in real life but very problematic in fiction. Pleasantness is the enemy of good fiction.… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
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The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but… — Gotye Copy Share Image
Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
I do think that we have to be careful not to assume that getting a perm or wearing a blonde wig is… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter… — Kay Hagan Copy Share Image
Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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“Your special someone! In the vastness of her inner mind, In the confines of her selective memories, In the visions of her… — Javid Ahmad Tak Copy Share Image
The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
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The way you create any outcome in your life is to hold the vision of your deepest desires. At the same time,… — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension.… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
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To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses… — Williston Fish Copy Share Image
I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
Those who direct the maximum force of their desires towards the center, toward the true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you have desires, try to look - are those desires the cause of your misery? Nobody wants misery, but nobody is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Onstage was where I felt the most confident and in control and free, and as I've gotten older, it's gotten more and… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
“He’d only just met her, he told himself, as though the newness and novelty was the explanation for his unusual feelings. Or… — Susan Johnson Copy Share Image
We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
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