#sir

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire. ↗

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#desire #plot #prompting

My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other. ↗

— Donna Leon

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Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

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Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do. ↗

— Lisa Leslie

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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven. ↗

— Christopher Love

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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

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To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible. ↗

— Maimonides

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We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

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