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• Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

  Harlan Coben

  Fall, Needs, May

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• The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

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• Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.

  George Clooney

  Acting

  "What Drives George Clooney". Interview with David Gergen, parade.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Musical, Groups

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• The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Self

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• I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

  Carrie Fisher

  Powerful, Writing, Sometimes

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Thinking, Men

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• Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

  Hugh Jackman

  Fathers Day, Dad, Sleep

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan, and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine,' 'X Men,' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.

  Hugh Jackman

  Men, Years, Australia

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• Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full and satisfying lives, but to have siblings and not make the most of that resource is squandering one of the greatest interpersonal resources you'll ever have.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, Sibling, Single Child

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• In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

  Samuel Butler

  Circles, Squares, People

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Home, Epic, Watches

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• The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

  David Ogilvy

  Perfection, Excellence, Planning

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• 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.

  Uma Thurman

  Business, Crazy, Nuts

  Interview with Laura Yorke, Reader's Digest, July 2006.

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• Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

  Stephen King

  Reading, Long, Way

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep.

  Larry McMurtry

  Fate, Yankees, Rest Of Life

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• When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.

  Kristen Wiig

  Comfort, Comfort Zone, Zone

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

  A. N. Wilson

  Inspirational, Writing, Annoyed

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little

  Shannon Hale

  Careers, Want, Littles

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.198, A&C Black

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• Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.

  Miranda July

  Revenge, Knives, People

  "The shared patio" by Miranda July, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2007.

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• And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Lying, Heart, Hands

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• Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

  James Beard

  Food, Beard, Bread

  "The Soup & Bread Cookbook: More Than 100 Seasonal Pairings for Simple, Satisfying Meals". Book by Beatrice Ojakangas, p. 7, 2013.

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• In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Kings, Sacrifice

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• How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

  Craig Thompson

  Matter, Movement, Maps

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• I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  People

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