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" Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime. "

" Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries. "

" Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Desperation sometimes drives innovation. "

Dara Khosrowshahi

" Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts. "

Matthew Desmond

" I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new. "

Kenneth Branagh

" If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory. "

Charles Spurgeon

" I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation. "

" I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else. "

" I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation. "

" It's not like Mexicans have an illegal immigration organ in their body and at 14 kicks off a hormone and shows them how to come to the United States illegally. It's a question of desperation for a vast majority of them. "

Luis Alberto Urrea

" It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it. "

" I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates. "

" I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie. "

" Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools. "

" Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. "

Douglas Coupland

" Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. "

Vita Sackville-West

" My desperation for UKIP to do well meant that I really packed the diary and the day in a way that, frankly, wasn't very bright. "

" My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound. "

" Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. "

" Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity. "

" Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation. "

" The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation. "

Matthew Desmond

" The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. "

Henry David Thoreau

" There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation. "

" There's nothing like desperation to sharpen your sense of focus. "

" We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. "

Anthony Burgess

" Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation. "

" Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation. "

" When I became a songwriter, it was out of some sort of desperation. I needed to create something. I had to latch on to something, and the guitar was what I grabbed. "

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