"I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure."
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"I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract."
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"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details."
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"All I'm saying is that sooner of later, you'll have to come to terms with yourself. You can't wish away the vampire in you, and you shouldn't keep atoning for it. You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it. Not to me, to your mum, or to anyone."
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"Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt"
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"Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor."
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"I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me."
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"These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed."
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"That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged."
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"When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve."
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"We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact."
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"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not."
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"Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish."
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"I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine"
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"I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice."
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"I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work."
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"Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?"
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"Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't."
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"If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared."
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"I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived."
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