"Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self."
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"We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear"
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"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."
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"I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?"
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"A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word."
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"If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company."
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"The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!""
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"If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar."
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"If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake."
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"Lord, protect me from what I want!"
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"Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art."
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"Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance."
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"He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles."
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"If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money."
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"I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it."
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"I want you to know he's coming to the church before he comes FOR the church. He's gonna perfect the Church so the church can be the Image, and be him, and be his representation."
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"If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself."
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"There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame."
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"Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have."
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"All people want to be touched."
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