"Daryl shrugged. "If wishes were wardrobes, we'd be in Narnia."
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"I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense."
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"In conclusion I wish to say that in working at the problem here dealt with I have had the loyal assistance of my friend and colleague M. Besso, and that I am indebted to him for several valuable suggestions."
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"In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life."
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"At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?"
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"I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie."
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"Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules."
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"Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne, because it will never change. I have such a fear of seeing you grow old, Jeanne, I fell in love with an unchanging you that will never be taken away from me. I was wishing you would die, so that no one could take you away from me, and I would love the painting of you as you would look eternally."
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"It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars."
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"Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine."
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"I wish I hadn't made so many images."
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"I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with."
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"If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going."
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"Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too."
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"I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth."
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"Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?"
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"Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are."
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"If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats."
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"I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that."
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"Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?"
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