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583 You Wanted quotes by 432 unique authors
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
— Randy Pausch
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At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived…
— Christine Quinn
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That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings…
— Thornton Wilder
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Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in…
— Anne Rice
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I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to…
— Johnny Depp
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I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or…
— Jesse Owens
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He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for…
— Robert Henri
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So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture.…
— George Orwell
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You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the…
— Henry James
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In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that…
— Mitch Albom
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When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there... whether…
— Jennifer Weiner
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We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get…
— Ken Kesey
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Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered…
— A.C.H. Smith
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You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.
— Sigmund Freud
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One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth,…
— Michael Ignatieff
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She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm hurt or cold…
— Jennifer Weiner
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I can't even dial one phone number right away. But you strained your own body to go and see them. I was surprised. The frightened…
— Arina Tanemura
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and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.
— Raymond Carver
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To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it?…
— A A Milne
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if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.
— Richard Yates
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Oswald: "All your life" Aurore: "What?" Oswald: "All your life, isn't that what you wanted to know? How long I loved you?" Aurore: "Well, yes,…
— Cameron Dokey
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