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“How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“everything is dear if you don't want it.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“If you want anything just ask for it” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“I wanted the whole world or nothing.” Charles Bukowski, Post Office
“When you get used to that kind of life—of never having anything you want—then you stop knowing what it is you want.” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“our labour preserves us from three great evils—weariness, vice, and want.” Voltaire, Candide
“to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“Even if you don’t have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you don’t want.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“In truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“We are often unable to tell people what they NEED to know, because they WANT to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“Anything we want, we're trained to want.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want . . . I want everything.” Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
“Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.” Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“You are one of those things that are ever found when least wanted, and when you are wanted, never!” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Am I just under a spell that says nothing is ever good enough?” Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“What others? I don't profess to be different from my kind. I'm consumed by the same wants and the same longings.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“One of the most important questions a woman can ask herself: What do I really want—and what is my spirit telling me is the best way to proceed?” Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure
“We were closely pinched to bring our wants within our means; but the jail stood over the way, and I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running in debt.” Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom
“The dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You could do whatever you wanted — in the ads and in the articles, ignore your limitations, defy them.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“There's a capacity for appetite . . . that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.” Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

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