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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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"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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"When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal."
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"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
Books
"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."
Writing
"Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know."
Work
"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."
Desire
"Novel writing wrecks homes."
Writing
"A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts."
Home
"The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be."
Fool
"With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents."
People
"A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted."
Living
"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."
Work
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