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«It is not difficult to write in Spanish; the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for granted. I take comfort therefore in the belief that you wished to pay tribute to a glorious language and not to the humble writer who uses it for everything it can express: the joy and the wisdom of Mankind, since literature is an art form of all and for all, although written without deference, heeding only the voiceless, anonymous murmur of a given place and time.»
«Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying»
«I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.»
«I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.»
Author: Germaine Greer | Keywords: mess, principally, wished
«I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.»
Author: Andy Warhol (Artist) | About: Death and dying | Keywords: gotten, whole thing, wished
«I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.»
«I was somebody who never loved my hair. I had curly hair and wished it was straight.»
Author: Jennifer Aniston (Actress) | Keywords: curly, wished
«No wise man ever wished to be younger.»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: wished, younger
«James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.»
«I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.»

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