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• She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

  Anais Nin

  Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Eye

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• The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.

  Frank Zappa

  Baseball, People, Aroma

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Wine, Kissing, Play

  Eugene O'Neill, Donald Clifford Gallup (1980). “Poems, 1912-1944”, Ticknor & Fields, 1980

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• Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult.

  Louise Erdrich

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love You, Thinking, Expression

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar in alcohal created the craving, which I feed with candy and soda.

  James Frey

  Years, Cake, Pie

  James Frey (2005). “My Friend Leonard”, p.63, Penguin

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• Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Mean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.81, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Lying, Moving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Luke (1998). “Faust”, p.48, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Eye, Giving, Looks

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• I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Memories, Bed, Buzz

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• The hunt isn't sustaining me. It's flowing blood that I really crave. The sweet taste of red succulent liquid mixing with the salt of my beloved as it drips and dances on his flesh. To know that someone will ache for me as much as I hunger for him and eternally satiate each other. I want someone to satisfy my hunger forever.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Sweet, Blood, Forever

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• These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking. Jonah Griggs takes my hand under the table and links my fingers with his and I know that I would sacrifice almost anything just to keep this state of mind, for the rest of the week at least.

  Melina Marchetta

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Hands

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• And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Home, Night, Appreciate

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• Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

  Rob Bell

  Able

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• A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.

  Marge Piercy

  Strong Women, Blue, Oxygen

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.77, Knopf

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• I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair. No one dares to cherish What I choose to crave. Never have I hungered, For that I did not have I am a kings daughter, And I grow old within The prison of my person, The shackles of my skin. And I would run away And beg from door to door, Just to see your shadow Once, and never more.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Daughter, Running, Kings

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• I dont crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as much pleasure as those acts I perform myself. I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Giving, Way, Companionship

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.139, Feral House

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• For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Ruins, Helping, Sometimes

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.63, Penguin

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• I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Rip, Humor

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• I just don't crave junk food.

  Cat Deeley

  Junk, Junk Food

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• I don't crave publicity, you know.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Publicity, Knows

  "Dr. Jack Kevorkian Dies At 83". "Morning Edition" with Mary Louise Kelly, www.npr.org. June 3, 2011.

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• Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Stress, Might Use, Needs

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• The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or another, desperately crave attention

  David Sedaris

  Drama, Hair, People

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• I never knew what it was to crave a woman’s touch. Or to hunger for a woman’s kiss.” “And now you do?” she asked hesitantly. “Since I met you, Corinne Bishop, I’ve been thinking of little else.

  Tina St. John

  Kissing, Thinking, Bishops

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• Two there shall be; no more, no less. One to embody the dark side, the other to crave it.

  Drew Karpyshyn

  Dark, Two, Sides

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