Saul Bellow · The source reads: “There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.… It never said a thing except I want, I want, I want!” · Henderson the Rain King (1959)
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