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• If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Sleep, Two

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.56, A&C Black

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• Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

  Joe Hill

  Another Chance, Intense, Humans

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.222, Hachette UK

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• [...] I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it. It was alien to me and I to it.

  Stephen Fry

  World, Firsts, Aliens

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.52, Soho Press

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• His gaze narrowed and she could see his hands twitching again like he’d love nothing more than to throttle her. She was beginning to think it was an affliction of his. Did he go around wanting to choke the life out of everyone or was she special in that regard? “I’m afraid ’tis an urge that is entirely original to you,” the laird barked. She clamped her mouth shut and closed her eyes. Mother Serenity had vowed one day Mairin would regret her propensity to blurt out her least little thought. Today just might be that day.

  Maya Banks

  Mother, Regret, Eye

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• sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it

  Jeannette Walls

  Book, Track, Library

  Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore unable to reach for love and respect and art and whatever else, which is, utter horseshit: The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness. Maslow's pyramid seemed to imply I was less human than other people, and most people seemed to agree with him.

  John Green

  Art, Philosophy, Pyramids

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people's sobs make me feel uncomfortable.

  Veronica Roth

  Wall, People, Strange

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• And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories. My mother urges me to write them down because, "You're the last of the Markhams, my love." So I record dates and journeys and personalities and traits and heroes and losers and weaknesses and strengths and I try to capture every one of those people because one day I'll need what they had to offer.

  Melina Marchetta

  Summer, Mother, Laughter

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• The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

  Bruce Lee

  Men, Style, Serious

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (2000). “Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.204, Tuttle Publishing

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• On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

  Tao Lin

  Strong, Average, World

  Tao Lin (2013). “Taipei”, p.127, Vintage

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• Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Years, Mind, Insane

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.41, Egmont UK

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• Isn’t that why you have that gun mounted on the front? Or is it for other reasons, because I would’ve thought that a man with your powers would be past the urge to compensate.” Barabas grinned. “I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus,” Saiman said dryly. “Thank you for reminding me.” “Always happy to oblige.

  Ilona Andrews

  Gun, Past, Men

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.47, Penguin

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• Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.

  Pat Conroy

  Kindness, Moving, Angel

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• Are you sulking?” “Me? No. I don’t sulk.” “You sound like you’re sulking.” “I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

  Derek Landy

  Waiting, Sound, Sulking

  Derek Landy (2013). “Last Stand of Dead Men (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 8)”, p.44, HarperCollins UK

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• Sanguine felt the ridiculous urge to reach out and poke him, just to see if he’d react, but he’d seen that kind of anger before. It was the quiet kind. The dangerous kind.

  Derek Landy

  Ridiculous, Quiet, Kind

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• .’..all this talk about your son’s loyalty and fidelity has made me feel a sudden urge to go riding.’ His father scowled. ‘You shouldn't ride in your condition. You could fall from a horse and lose or injure the babe you carry.’ Holding Styxx’s hand in hers, she paused to smile graciously at him. ‘I never said anything about horse, Majesty. It’s your son I intend to mount and ride. Good day.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Loyalty, Horse, Father

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• So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad that they were together, he had the ridiculous urge to smile.

  Rick Riordan

  What If, Together, Slim

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• I feel the urge, familiar now, to wrench myself from my body and speak directly into her mind. It is the same urge, I realize, that makes me want to kiss her every time I see her, because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating. Our fingers, loosely woven a moment ago, now clutch together, her palm tacky with moisture, mine rough in places where I have grabbed too many handles on too many moving trains. Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide-open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

  Veronica Roth

  Distance, Moving, Eye

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• She tied her blond hair back with a strip of denim torn from her pants leg, and in the fiery light of the river, her grey eyes flickered. Despite being beat-up, sooty, and dressed like a homeless person, she looked great to Percy. So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad that they were together, he had the ridiculous urge to smile.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Light, Hair

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• Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning. Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgivable mistakes? Yes, given half a chance. Yes.

  Raymond Carver

  Morning, Mistake, Lying

  Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.135, Vintage

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• You know I love you, right?” The urge to kiss her goodbye was so strong that I almost broke our rules. She smiled, beautiful and golden in the late morning light. “Not as much as I love you.” “Oh, man. This is my dream come true: having an ‘I love you more’ debate. Here, I’ll start. I love you more. Your turn.” Sydney laughed and opened the door. “I’ve taken debate classes. You’d lose to my logic.

  Richelle Mead

  Love, Beautiful, Goodbye

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• I'll be honest, I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten and that led to the gesture I made. There was nothing behind it really.

  Vladimir Putin

  Hilarious, Gestures, Honest

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• I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.

  Michael J. Fox

  Knowledge, Inspired, Knows

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• It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of evasions: history as sociology, leaders as teachers, bland benevolence as a motive force, when, finally, power is an end to itself, and the instinctive urge to prevail the most important single human trait, the necessary force without which no city was built, no city destroyed.

  Gore Vidal

  Teacher, Simple, Sea

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• I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

  Lord Dunsany

  Travel, Moon, Thinking

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