"I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?"
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"Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who is detached from you. They just listen to what you tell them and you get to form the way that they see you, whereas everyone else in your life already thinks they know what you're dealing with or what you're going through. That's my recommendation for actual anxiety."
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"I usually have Kafka biography in my bathroom. It's a book I can open at random and feel interested in immediately. It's really funny. With this book, since I'm opening it at random and immediately interested, I don't feel the need to read more than I want to read, in that there's not, like, a plot that leads me along. So I can stop whenever."
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"To write, you have to know how to act and know about directing. To act, you also need to know how to write and direct."
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"To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need."
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"Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out of your own nature and ways, out of your own experience and childhood and strength to achieve a relation to sex wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom) then you need no longer be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your best possession."
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"We live in a really sexist culture, that's got to be addressed. And a really homophobic one. And all those things need to be addressed and looked at."
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"Humanitarianism needs no apology, even when its objects are Russians or Communists. Unless we recover that concern and feel it toward all men without exception, including those who are on the other side in every fratricidal dispute, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history."
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"Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most."
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"We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all."
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"Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful."
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"I need that unexplainable spark. I need to see someone and feel 'oh-oh'. It's only happened a few times in my life."
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"Being single is wonderful and I love it. I don't ever have a morning where I wake up and say, 'I really need to find a boyfriend today.'"
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"I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me."
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"I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me."
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"When I was a teenager I felt like we were always being stereotyped as being really intense and dramatic and passionate and hopelessly romantic and excitable, now in retrospect I think I need to let you know those things are amazing. I hope you never lose those things."
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"Some people never need to let up at all."
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"We all need someone who can help us do what we already can."
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"Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used."
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"But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end."
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