want Quotes

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“Anything we want, we're trained to want.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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“In truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“There's a capacity for appetite . . . that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.”

― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

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“Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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“to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“What others? I don't profess to be different from my kind. I'm consumed by the same wants and the same longings.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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