Jacques Lacan Quotes
The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.
Jacques Lacan
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
Ian Watson
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
Dakota Fanning
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
Camille Paglia
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
J. H. Wyman
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
Victor LaValle
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
Katee Sackhoff
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo
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I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.
Karen Gillan
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
Jack Nicklaus
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
Maeve Binchy
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I heard the hiss and felt the blessed numbness spreading. If there is a God, I thought, it’s a painkiller.
Dan Simmons
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Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.
Steve Martin
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For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.
William S. Burroughs
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But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars.
Dante Alighieri
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It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.
Lady Gaga
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The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.
Jacques Lacan