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"Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken."
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"There's nothing wrong with the fire.. if you don't get too close. - Patch."
"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."
"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
"Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God."
"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."
"I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them."
"Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them."
"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."
"Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
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"You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question."
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"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."
"Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running-that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all."
"In the hall itself the din of the music - for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was originally for - was so tremendous that it shattered Dean and Stan and me for a moment in the realization that we had never dared to play music as we wanted, and this was how loud we wanted."
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