"If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write."

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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."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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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."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."

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"Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance."

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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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"But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews."

Experience, Appreciation, Audiences, Feet

"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."

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"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."

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"For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own."

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"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old."

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"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."

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"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."

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