6,169 Quotes About Needs

  • Author Jason Wu
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    I need to feel like I'm part of something. I need to feel part of the world when I go to sleep.

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  • Author Jeanette Winterson
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    I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?

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  • Author Jeanette Winterson
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    Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.

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  • Author Jeanette Winterson
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    Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.

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  • Author Jennifer Weiner
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    It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried to apologize for dressing us like overaged Teletubbies by silk-screening daisies on the tops.

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