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• I got good grades in school, but I'm not sure if I'm smart or if it just means I can study. I've never taken one of those IQ tests, and I don't want to. It's so pointless. As long as you enjoy life and have fun and you're healthy and happy, that's what matters.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Fun, Smart, Taken

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• When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell asleep in my arms in a trust so gentle I let the darkening room drink up the evening, till rest, or the new rain lightly roused you awake. I asked if you heard the rain in your dream and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.

  Edwin Morgan

  Dream, Rain, Love You

  Edwin Morgan (1990). “Collected poems”, Carcanet Press

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• Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death. Then, when his soul is naked, is he one With the man in the wind, and the west moon, With the harmonious thunder of the sun

  Dylan Thomas

  Moon, Men, Wind

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• But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes; otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Scratches, Would Be

  Werner Herzog (2009). “Conquest of the useless: reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo”, Ecco Pr

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• I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl.

  Ai Yazawa

  Girl, Angel, Normal

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• His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her... He's probably forgotten that I'm here, beside him

  Ai Yazawa

  Hands, Feet, Forgotten

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• I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.” Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.

  James Patterson

  Growing Up, Ocean, Sea

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• I want to know about my mom. And other stuff. I want to know the whole story, good or bad.” “Me, too,” said Gazzy. “I want to find my parents so I can tell’m what total scuzzes they are. Like, ‘Hi, mom and dad, you’re such scum!

  James Patterson

  Mom, Dad, Parent

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.225, Hachette UK

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• She wanted to cry, but she did not want Peter to see her cry, and she especially did not want Teacher, with her flowing hair, to see her cry.

  Dave Barry

  Teacher, Hair, Cry

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• Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Men, Comfort

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.168, Penguin

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• No mistakes, I'd promised myself that i would make no mistakes, no matter how minimal they seemed. if i held her hand, i would only want more - another insignificant touch, another move closer to her. i could feel that. a new kind of desire was growing in me, working to override my self-control. no mistakes.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Mistake, Moving, Self

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• Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Tired, Heart

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• I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Taken, Rely

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• Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!

  Suzanne Collins

  Country, Rebellion, Whole

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.270, Scholastic

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• Knock! knock! who's there? me! me who? that's right? what's right? meehoo! that's what I want to know! what's what you want to know? me who? yes, exactly! exactly what? yes, I have exactlywatt on a chain! exactly what on a chain? yes! yes what? no, exactlywatt! that's what I want to know! I told you-exactlywatt! exactly what? yes! yes what? yes it's with me. what's with you? exactlywatt-that's what with me. me who? yes! go away! knock knock...

  Shel Silverstein

  Going Away, Chains, Know Me

  Shel Silverstein, “The Meehoo With An Exactlywatt”

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• For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

  Sebastian Barry

  Secret, Sanity, Fortune

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely

  Patricia Cornwell

  Men, Giving, Assuming

  Patricia Cornwell (2010). “The Body Farm: Scarpetta 5”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, ...but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Wish, Chance

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• Are you sure you want me to go after Christina? Lately I've kind of thought I might just give up on that. Plus, didn't you and I need to gaze into each other's eyes first? How will I know how to gaze at Christina? And my pebble kicking? Disaster.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Giving Up, Eye, Needs

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• The only reason I lost, the only reason I failed to get what I want, is because the monster is me, there's no difference between us. It makes all the moves, calls all the shots, while I'm just along for the ride, with no idea how to pull the brakes or get off.

  Alyson Noel

  Moving, Ideas, Differences

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• Because I don't have everything I want. Not even close.

  Alyson Noel

  Alyson Noel (2010). “Dark Flame”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

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• I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns for my arms.

  Mathias Malzieu

  Wall, Body, Arms

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• We needn't talk about Tessa if you don't want to, you know." "It's not Tessa." This was true. Will hadn't been thinking of Tessa. He was getting good at not thinking about her, really; all it took was determination and practice.

  Cassandra Clare

  Determination, Thinking, Practice

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• What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.

  Thomas Merton

  Catholic, Saint, Should

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• My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: "I want a spiritual teacher.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spiritual, Teacher, Heart

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.26, A&C Black

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