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“Writing a novel creates a window to a new way of looking at the world. Reading one means looking through that window.”

— Mark Rubinstein

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties…

— Isaiah Berlin

A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.

— V. S. Pritchett

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more…

— D.T. Suzuki

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as…

— Anonymous

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love…

— Virginia Woolf

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

— Michel de Montaigne

When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the…

— Dalai Lama

I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate…

— Roseanne Barr

Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and…

— Wilhelm Stekel

When I look at you all I see is heartbreak waiting to happen. And I can't tell if it's because of love. Or loneliness.…

— Ream