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"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
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"What I want is only a wish."
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"You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right."
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"Go for the desire you dare to dream."
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"There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied-who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy. It seems almost pointless to give to these people because their eyes immediately shift from the gift to stare miserably at the portion held back. Their wants, demands, expectations, appetites are never satiated, thus they refuse to be happy. And you cannot make them so."
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"Do you have a dream or desire that is burning a hole in your soul? Something that lights your fire and brings you simple pleasure?"
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"The desire of the people should be the major instrument used to draw them closer to God."
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"The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery."
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"We want money but we crave appreciation."
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"What you are searching for with love, life will give you."
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"The manifest of gratitude is hundred-fold blessings."
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"Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for."
Act
"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
Desire
"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons."
Motivational
"A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties."
Education
"Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life."
Life
"Nobody does anything for one reason."
Reason
"It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check."
Time
"But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art."
Age
"The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War."
War
"And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care."
Love
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