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“Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace.”

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Author:James A. Murphy III

“In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.”

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Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get so old and you sort of give up in some way. You've had your period of angst, your period of religious desperation, and you've arrived at a philosophical position where you don't need, or you can't bear, to look at it.”

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Author:John Updike

“Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.”

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Author:Douglas Coupland

“Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are not people whose lives have been calm and predictable. A life under tight control sometimes produces quiet desperation. High well-being is a life that has depth and quality. Risks, losses, problems, and tragedy add pain to a life. That pain becomes a teacher. We learn; the pain gives us no choice.”

Source: Success Is the Quality of Your Journey

“Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.”

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Book:A Small Place

Source: A Small Place

“So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.”

World Firsts Book Real Feelings Jobs Felt Answers Entertainment Driven Novelists Logical Desperation Real Feelings

Author:Lee Child

“I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.”

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Author:Thomas Dolby

“Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.”

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Author:Robbie Robertson