No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

—Eric Sevareid

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About Eric Sevareid

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Arnold Eric Sevareid (November 26, 1912 – July 9, 1992) was an American author and CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents who were hired by CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow and nicknamed "Murrow's Boys." Sevareid was the first to...

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Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

—Eric Sevareid

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More quotations tagged with “want”

The only way I could describe what kissing him felt like was, like the last day of school, knowing that months of freedom and sunshine lay before you, the feeling that you could do anything you wanted and time stretched out in endless possibilities.

—Robin Benway in Emmy & Oliver

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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is the fact.

—Jean-Paul Sartre

The heart does not always make sense. It wants what it wants, even if what it desires does not want it back.

—Amber Lynn Natusch in Fractured

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I don't want a taste of something I can never have.

—Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight

I never stopped loving you. I wanted to. It would have been easier. But I can't turn it off with a switch.

—Abbi Glines in Until The End

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