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“The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.”

People World Want Book Artist House Forget Difficulty University Intelligence Contemporary Realization Grotesque Inefficiency

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

“For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement than the president's in the annual report. Ditto interiors, particularly of offices and sometimes, dramatically, in plants. For solvent businesses, support of community cultural undertakings in music, drama, dance creates great goodwill. Also, the existence of such activities is often important to the executives and their families that companies want to keep or attract to keep.”

“Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?”

People Men Want Pain Suffering House Given Pleasure Sitting Fellows Charity Selfishness Woe Fellow Man Corpses Merry Sitting Up

Book:Redburn.His First Voyage

Source: Redburn.His First Voyage

“But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.”

People Want Wells Beautiful House Freedom Live Well Respectability

Book:Three Soldiers

Source: Three Soldiers

“What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.”

Ifs Want Government House Party Support Thirds Appeals Length Third Parties House Of Commons

Author:Stephen Harper

“I think if the White House or the President want to say anything about our conversations or anything I tried to do to help our country with their support or at their request, then I think they should be the ones to do that. But I think that former presidents should do that.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Country Helping House President White Support Conversation Our Country Former White House Say Anything Request

Author:William J. Clinton

“You shouldn't send an email from a computer that's associated with you if you don't want it to be tracked back to you. You don't want to hack the power plant from your house if you don't want them to follow the trail back and see your IP address.”

Ifs Want House Computer Plant Addresses Email Trails Hacks Power Plants

Author:Edward Snowden

“No, I like normal life but I will go crazy if I'm not working. I'll say to my mom, "I'm going crazy! I'm going stir crazy!" I love my house. I love my family. I love my animals. Sometimes, I just want to work whether its on location here in Michigan or back in LA. I just want to work, work, work. It's what I want to do with the rest of my life so, yes, I do go a little bit crazy when I'm not working.”

Ifs Want Littles Sometimes House Bits Animal Crazy Mom Normal Little Bit My Family My Mom Working It Location Normal Life Michigan Going Crazy Love My Family I Love My Family Stir Crazy

Author:Joey King

“We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an occupied city, I know. They have arms, they have weapons, they have police, they have mortar guns, but it is Palestinian and it is under occupation.”

Knows Want House Cities Arms Weapons Gun Police Occupation Palestinian Mortar

Author:Hanan Ashrawi

“Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.”

Thinking Men Want Needs House Wealth Rich Fine Horse Access Thoughtful Apartment Handsome Amusement Garments

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.”

Want House Get Up Piano Oscars

Author:Benny Carter

“The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.”

Want Kind Made House Rooms Hair Breaths Tables Rose Dishes Cleanliness Dining Towels Flakes Immaculate Dining Rooms

Book:Vintage Cisneros

Source: Vintage Cisneros

“Want me to sell my soul, just so I can go gold. You can have the cars, clothes the jewerlies, the houses and hos. Cats do anything for a little bit of fame and a little bit of change. Industry snakes, they ain't friendly. Thought she loved me, she just tricked me.”

Want Littles I Can Soul House Bits Car Industry Fame Little Bit Clothes Cat Gold Sells My Soul Friendly Want Me Snakes

Author:Bow Wow

“In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read: "Moms come up to me at book signings and describe how they're telling their daughters, 'These were my favorite books,'?" she says. "I say, 'Quit it! That's the biggest turnoff!'"You want to get them to read them, leave them around the house and every so often, say, 'You're not ready to read this yet.'”

Want Book Kids Young House Fiction Advice New York Ready Mom Daughter Adults My Favorite Young Adult Come Up Quitting Posts Interviews Not Ready Signing Favorite Book

Author:Judy Blume