"Desire suppressed finds its way into other more……" — Susan Minot
"Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams."
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29 Quotes by Susan Minot
Susan Minot has 29 quotes on this site.
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When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock…
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The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person,…
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After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather…
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[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates.…
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Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved…
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I would have fallen in love with you anywhere.
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There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
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After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even…
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...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.
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...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while…
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Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which…
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Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain…
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More Desire Quotes
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one of 7,210 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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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