"I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar."
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"I'm so hungry, comrade! It has been days since we ate those two raccoons!' 'I know comrade. I'm even beginning to wish we had some of your homemade quiche!' 'Oh comrade! Do you mean it?' 'Hey--Hey! None of that! If you ever tell anyone I said that, I'll deny it!"
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"We wish with our hands, that's what we do as artists."
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"Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out."
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"We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were."
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"God must act and pour himself into you the moment he finds you ready. Don't imagine that God can be compared to an earthly carpenter, who acts or doesn't act, as he wishes; who can will to do something or leave it undone, according to his pleasure. It is not that way with God: where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that."
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"I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good."
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"I mean, if you could have a wizard grant a wish, would you waste it on going to Kansas?"
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"It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well."
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"I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing."
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"Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and abundant technological know-how, in which some terrorists clearly state their intention to inflict catastrophic casualties. Were such an attack to occur, it would not only cause widespread death and destruction, but would stagger the world economy... [creating] a second death toll throughout the developing world."
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"So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!"
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"I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken."
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"Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?"
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"I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions."
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"Your mind is a tool you can choose to use any way you wish."
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"People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed."
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"You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well."
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"When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective."
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"People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”"
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