"You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
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"If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution."
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"God wants us to pray that we might have the courage to live before him in ways that are not natural to us."
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"The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . ."
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"My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse."
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"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."
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"I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock."
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"A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you."
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"How much would you want to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?"
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"I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours."
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"The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further."
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"When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript."
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"I guess you go for nothing, if you really want to go that far."
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"I want it all and I want it now."
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"I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter."
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"I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle; I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride my bike; I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride it where I like...; I don't believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman; All I wanna do is bicycle, bicycle, bicycle..."
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"I am my city. Nobody from my city wants to hear about my city."
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"We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation."
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"When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!"
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"When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following."
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