"What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead."
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"It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable."
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"Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering."
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"It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less."
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"Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old."
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"The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific."
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"We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again."
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"As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer."
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"I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays."
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"I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only."
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"I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder."
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"The story of my life can be told in silver: in chocolate mills, serving spoons, and services for twelve. The story of my life has nothing to do with me. The story of my life is things. Things that aren’t mine, that won’t ever be mine. It’s all I’ve ever known. I wish it wasn’t."
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"Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I'll make myself do it in spite of fear. But it can really sap the will. I hate fear, I wish I had it less."
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"Harry Potter's like Santa Clause: something you can't see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it."
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"If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened."
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"Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that."
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"If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad."
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"I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't."
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"Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown."
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"Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you."
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