"If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics."
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"Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more."
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"American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither."
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"I have created the life that I live... therefore I can create the life that I want."
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"I don't want to join the kind of a club that accepts people like me as members."
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"The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment."
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"My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate."
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"A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that's achieved by, if you like, advertising."
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"Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now."
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"You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are."
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"Her memory's your love. You want no other."
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"Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have."
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"Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more."
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"I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to."
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"I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome."
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"Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds."
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"I want to suffer so that I may love."
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"The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is."
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"If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album."
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"I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image."
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