"The human desire to know why is as……" — Janet Burroway
"The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order."
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10 Quotes by Janet Burroway
Janet Burroway has 10 quotes on this site.
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Right now-whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living…
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In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth,…
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Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical.…
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Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.
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The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who…
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In Literature, only trouble is interesting.
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The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation…
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If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may…
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What is the pattern of change?
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More Desire Quotes
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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