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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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Personal Development
"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
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Personal Development
"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."
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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
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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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"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
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"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."
Interest
"When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten."
Family
"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
Truth
"There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong."
Risk
"I have never read a line of Walt Whitman."
Reading
"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."
Friendship
"I want to live quietly."
Want
"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things."
Happiness
"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
Now
"Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest."
Criticism
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