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• Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

  George Gershwin

  Want, Limits, Should

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Keith Tester, Zygmunt Bauman, Michael Hviid Jacobsen (2005). “Bauman Before Postmodernity: Invitation, Conversations and Annotated Bibliography 1953-1989”, Aalborg Universitetsforlag

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• Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Answers, Problem

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.437

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• Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.

  David Hume

  Ocean, Gay, Thinking

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.4068, Delphi Classics

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• Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I am never a part of anything around me - in everything I am an outsider. Should I find it possible to crawl backward through the Halls of Time to that age which is nearest my own fancy, I should doubtless be bawled out of the coffee-houses for heresy in religion, or else lampooned by John Dennis till I found refuge in the deep, silent Thames, that covers many another unfortunate.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Coffee, Two, House

  Letter to "The Keicomolo" - Kleiner, Cole, and Moe (October 1916), in "Selected Letters I, 1911-1924" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 27), 1964.

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• I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to be useless and ineffectual. There must be some meaning to me, if not to my life; there must surely be some purpose that has my name written on it. If this is not so, if I am deceiving myself about this too, then why should I want to become real? What reason have I to live anywhere?

  Peter S. Beagle

  Real, Talking, Names

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• What do I care about danger? I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy - why should I be afraid?

  Hermann Goring

  Soldier, Enemy, Care

  Remark on March 15, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• "You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die."
  "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...]
  "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."

  Chinua Achebe

  Mother, Children, Yams

  "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, Fawcett Premier edition, (p. 64), 1969.

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• When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sex, Book, Character

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• I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

  Philip Johnson

  Art, Building, Should

  "Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.

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• But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay

  John Buchan

  Dust, Romance, Firsts

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• Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I,
  But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round,
  Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, -
  A life-complete in death-complete to die.

  John B. Tabb

  Loss, Perfect, Gains

  "The Bubble". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?

  Du Fu

  Travel, Grieving, Ancient

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• Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, Stars, Media

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• Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I've got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head.

  Danny Huston

  Memories, Father, Real

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why should I worry, why should I care? And even when I cross that line, I got street savoire faire.

  Billy Joel

  Philosophy, Worry, Care

  Song: Why Should I Worry?

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• Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.

  Pablo Picasso

  Sea, Circles, Perfect

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• Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means.

  George Washington

  Heart, Mean, May

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.504

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• I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die

  Robert Herrick

  Writing, Mean, Giving

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.36

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• Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?

  Socrates

  Ass, Should, Kicks

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• Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish,--so am I; Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Wise, Strong, Men

  Sam Walter Foss, “The House By The Side Of The Road”

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• We think that the problems of the world and of ourselves can only be solved through "doing," not realizing that it is this focus on ceaseless activity that has created much of our present imbalance. Rather than always asking, "What should I do?," we can learn to reflect, "How should I be?

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

  Thinking, Focus, Asking

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (2009). “The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul”, p.52, The Golden Sufi Center

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• It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

  Plotinus

  Portraiture, Enough, Should

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• Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be. [it's a good point - pretty hard to argue with that sort of logic really isn't it!

  Terry Goodkind

  Want, Arguing, Logic

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• "Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

  John William Fletcher

  Hands, Religion, Comfort

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