That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it, once the object of your...
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Paul Auster
Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.
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Ann Brashares
I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart?
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Margaret Atwood
To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.
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Dashiell Hammett
But I don't want more things than I need, either.
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Isabel Allende
More Quotes By Dashiell Hammett
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.” Sam Spade “You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere
He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.
If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.
I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
