"I want to live quietly."

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"If you want to be happy, be."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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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."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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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

"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

"Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things."

Literature

"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."

Desire

"I love devils."

Love

"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."

Reading

"Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul."

Quality

"I have never read a line of Walt Whitman."

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"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."

Now

"I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day."

Books