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«Most of them lead lives of unquiet desperation, continually seeking, in sex they wish was love and in the love they suspect is only sex, a center for their worlds to turn on.»
Author: David Dempsey | Keywords: desperation, turn on, unquiet
«Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.»
Author: Uma Thurman (Actress) | Keywords: desperation, nuts, perfume, satisfying
«Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.»
Author: Vita Sackville-West (Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: desperation
«Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.»
Author: William S. Burroughs | About: Change, Despair | Keywords: desperation, drastic, in the raw, leave behind, raw, raw material, raw materials
«Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.»
Author: Doug Horton | Keywords: attracting, desperation, stealing
«I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers / because males have got to try and justify their existence.»
Author: Orson Welles | Keywords: belong to, brighten, brightened, brightening, brightens, desperation, feathers, have got, justify, luxury, madden, maddening, prettier, Pretty Woman, The Birds
«Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli (Novelist, Prime Minister) | Keywords: desperation, inspirer
«In life you need either inspiration or desperation.»
Author: Anthony Robbins | About: Despair, Inspiration | Keywords: desperation, inspiration
«A dog in desperation will leap over a wall»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | Keywords: desperation, leap
«Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: desperation, for a song, go, go to, grave, graver, gravest, lead, leading man, lead on, lives, men, O grave, quiet, quieted, quieter, quietest, quiets, Quiet Life, song, Song of the, still, The Grave
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