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"If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
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"Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit."
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"I want to grow into the best person I can be."
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"It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment."
Home
"I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result."
Religion
"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old."
May
"The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved."
Family
"It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all."
Books
"It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony."
Death
"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
Poems
"Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment."
Time
"My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together."
Brother
"My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine."
Chance
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