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Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: About Act Also Appetites Before Depths Flood Get Much Novel Plumbing Put Quite Self-Discovery Serious Something Them While Whole World Writing You

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I always feel like there's some behaviour that we're all capable - we have our inhibitions protecting from indulging in certain appetites or developing certain appetites.

~Bill Pullman

Topics: Always Appetites Behaviour Capable Certain Developing Feel Inhibitions Like Our Protecting Some

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The proliferation of styles, genres, and media need not be the death knell of anything. Instead, it's a sign that our acceptance for variation and experimentation has become wider, our interests have become more diverse, and our appetites have become more omnivorous.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Acceptance Anything Appetites Become Death Diverse Experimentation Genres Instead Interests Media More Need Our Proliferation Sign Styles Variation Wider

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

~Charles Dickens

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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

~Diane Arbus

Topics: Appetites Apt Change Children Craving Full Growth Larger Men Our Too Vain

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I've been a skinny girl my whole life. I just don't sit down - I'm always on the go. It must be down to the genes. We have a healthy body image in my house and great appetites. It'd be hard for you to find a food I don't love.

~Donna Air

Topics: Always Appetites Been Body Body Image Down Find Food Genes Girl Go Great Hard Healthy House Image Just Life Love Must Sit Skinny Whole You

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

~Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

~Ernest Shackleton

Topics: Able After Appetites Envied Fit Found Gods Hunger Meals Might Months Ourselves Suddenly Want

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Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Ambition Appetites Bigger Every Exaggerated Failings Fiction Life Made Magnetism Personalities Politicians Sense Than Way

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If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: Appetites Being Corporate Enslaved Leaders Own Purpose Risk Run Slaves Social Some

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