"I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this."

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"I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this."

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"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."

Patti Smith, American Musician

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Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Piper's lust was like a single bear trap in the wilderness. It was nearly impossible to find if you were looking for it, but it was something you wanted to be prepared for if you stepped into it by accident."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."

John Fowles, English Novelist

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"Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes."

Tahir Shah, British Author

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"Are deepest desires are: someone to understand us, someone to appreciate us, someone to inspire us, and someone to enjoy what we are."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"A man desire two things: love and happiness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Remember that any desire is tested; the greater the desire, the greater the tests."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"You have a nice mouth," he says. "I can't stop looking at it.""You should taste it. It's quite lovely."

Colleen Hoover, American Celebrity

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"The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day."

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"The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress."

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