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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.


Anne Sullivan Macy


#chains #cling #commonplace #desperately #escape

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.


Mireille Mathieu


#death #desperate #go #heart #joy

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.


Alice Miller


#child #childhood #desperate #disease #fantasies

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.


Joni Mitchell


#busy #career #desperately #eat #forget

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.


Michel de Montaigne


#birds #cage #desperate #equally #get

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.


Horatio Nelson


#desperate #measures #require

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.


Solomon Ortiz


#desperately #does #education #fulfilled #funding

The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.


David Prowse


#commercials #desperate #get #i #star

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.


David Foster Wallace


#desire #desperate #hostility #i #i can

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.


Sheilah Graham


#created #desperately #energy #enough #exuberance






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