One Wanted Quotes

49 quotes by 48 authors

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without… — Robert W. Service
If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is… — Italo Calvino
The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of… — Richard Brautigan
If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then,… — Daphne du Maurier
Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of… — Alan Bennett
no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough… — Ted Dekker
One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table,… — Virginia Woolf
As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body! — Louis Aragon
No one knew about the squirrelâ€™s skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know. — Ian Mcewan
Which is worse, Risa often wondered, to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted or to silently make then go away before… — Neal Shusterman
For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For… — Isadora Duncan
I had to face the fact that I had been using my gay friends as props. They were always supposed to be funny and entertain… — Tina Fey
No one wanted to spontaneously combust into flames, especially not in traffic.â€™ â€“ Sundown — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously. — Hermann Hesse
Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that… — Yann Martel
I have so much love inside me, Jason. So much. And I have never been allowed to shower it on anyone--no one wanted it. Let… — Nalini Singh
No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You… — John Irving
I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long… — Portia de Rossi
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would… — Marcel Proust
I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop… — Iggy Azalea

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