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"When you want something badly enough it's amazing what you'll ignore."
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"I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane."
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"Often, men want money to get women, or to use women to get money, or both at the same time."
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"Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called 'Gnani' [the enlightened one]."
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"The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest."
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"The eye of a man is never satisfied with seeing."
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"Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can't manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only 'find' these things, we will never sense any compulsion to 'find' God."
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"If you can desire it, you can behold it."
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"When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want."
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"As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then."
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"Desires move us from one station to another in this life while we search for beauty, love, and happiness."
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"It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes."
Discovery
"Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think."
Writing
"Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it."
Love
"They march into the future to the rhythm of the past."
Time
"You can't trust anyone you have to pay, and really, they can't trust you."
Trust
"An eerie atmosphere leeched from the soot-damaged walls. It was as if the house had died, and yet she felt she belonged here. It was as if the old place wanted to claim her from the grave."
Mystery
"Once you're on the pleasure express, it's hard to get off and switch to another, slower service."
Psychology
"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."
Research
"Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation."
Legacy
"I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction."
Storytelling
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