"How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into."

Needs, Soul, Body, Trust, Confidence

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"How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into."

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"No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life."

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"Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author."

Jean de la Bruyere, French Philosopher

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"The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia."

Frank Carlucci, American Politician

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"A functioning police state needs no police."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

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"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."

Rene Descartes, French Mathematician

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"I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail."

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"I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night."

Buddy Rich, American Musician

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"The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor."

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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

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"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."

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"Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep."

Healing, Sleep, Awakening, Darkness, Emotion

"What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?"

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"Brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on."

Love, Bravery, Pain, Passion

"I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here."

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"This boy - his name was Eric - said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college stood around on the porches under the porch lights and in the bushes in plain view, necking madly before the one o'clock curfew, so everybody passing by could see them. A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals."

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"Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master."

Expression, Sickness, Word, Physical, World

"This is a case without a body.The body does not come into it at all."

Mystery, Body, Absence, Investigation

"I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree."

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