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Without desire how is it possible to make a story?

Without desire how is it possible to make a story?
– JM Coetzee

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  2. Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories? – JM Coetzee
  3. What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
  4. One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. – Franz Kafka
  5. It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough. – Dejan Stojanovic
  6. Anything which is physically possible can be made financially possible, if the people of a state desire it. – Robert A Heinlein
  7. What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire. – Stanley Kunitz
  8. There is no greater freedom than the freedom to desire. There is no greater desire than the desire to be free. – R A Delmonico
  9. The greatest desire is the desire to be free. The greatest freedom is the freedom to desire. – RADelmonico
  10. To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. – Lorii Myers
  11. Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting. – Kim Stanley Robinson
  12. The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss. – Jen Pollock Michel
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  14. Because a woman’s beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it. – JM Coetzee
  15. Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That’s what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for? – JM Coetzee
  16. (I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. – JM Coetzee
  17. Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. – JM Coetzee
  18. To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy. – JM Coetzee
  19. A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us. – JM Coetzee
  20. There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason. – JM Coetzee
  21. Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation. – JM Coetzee
  22. It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories. – JM Coetzee
  23. It is possible to make family any way you like. It is possible to love men without rage. There are thousands of ways to love men. – Lidia Yuknavitch
  24. The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K Le Guin
  25. The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. – Mark Twain
  26. When you write a story you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story. – Stephen King
  27. I always like the story behind the story more than the story itself. – AD Posey
  28. The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
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  31. Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called -˜Gnani’ [the enlightened one]. – Dada Bhagwan
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  35. People are tired of being told that it’s possible… It’s time to show them how it can be possible. Leadership is demonstration. – Israelmore Ayivor
  36. Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible. – Elena Ferrante
  37. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.-Dalai Lama – Dalai Lama XIV
  38. Fear makes the possible look impossible;faith makes the impossible, possible. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  39. It is not possible to say too much about Christ. But it is quite possible to say too little about hell. – JC Ryle
  40. All things are possible for me because I believe all things are possible. – Joe Vulgamore

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