"My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did."
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"I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did."
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"I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance."
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"But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.' 'Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action."
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"Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it."
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"As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know."
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"I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus."
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"The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it."
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"First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord."
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"I always want everything read in one sitting. If they can't read it in one sitting, you're going to lose the rhythm of it. You're going to lose the shape of it."
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"We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know."
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"On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ... I can't do it."
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"You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part."
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"Memories are what you no longer want to remember."
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"If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it."
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"In terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have done it better, a different way."
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"When you want to succeed in Real Estate, you have to breath it..you have to want it as much as air"
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"Giants versus Jets Super Bowl. I'm telling you, that's all I want to see."
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"I want to keep everyone happy but at the same time I also have to be confident with what I'm putting out and be secure with it."
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"I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really."
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