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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write."
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"It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got."
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"Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise."
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"There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts."
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"I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing."
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"I always write the pieces I want to write."
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"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."
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"I want to keep a mysterious side to me. I want to keep a mysterious side to me."
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"What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't."
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"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."
Reading


"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it."
People


"Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures."
Nation


"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."
Society


"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."
Movies


"Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt."
Doubt


"The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater."
Art


"The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring."
Love


"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."
Animals


"You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery."
Want
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