I could not cling to my past nor did I wish to.

Now I wish to enter the American market, where the competition is very strong.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

among whom, his Party have indeed more Friends than I could wish ''.

`` Mr. Lane '', Hearst said, `` if you ever wish anything that I can do, all you will have to do will be to send me a telegram asking, and it will be done ''.

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

I wish you would return them to her.

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

I wish you could see the situation as I see it.

-- In reply to a letter in Today's `` Voice '' urging the sale of meat after 6 p.m., I wish to state the other side of the story.

I just wish to congratulate Inspector Trimmer and his efficient police troops in cleaning the city of those horrible automobiles.

I wish to advocate two drastic changes in Washington Square: 1.

Krist, I wish they could write!!

I wish I did.

I wish to make Jesus an authentic Jew.

I wish our doctor could have saved her ''.

I wish you was Henry.

You may stay as long as you wish, of course, but if arranging for the care of the girls must take time into account, I think a day or two should be enough to finish our business in ''.

And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.

`` I made you so you could stand up.

I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.

`` Not a danged thing but rattlesnakes, so I reckon I'll get the boss rattler to help me ''.

Now turn around so I can see your face ''.

I just wanted to hear you say so ''.

`` Moriarty '', my driver suddenly exclaimed with something so definite, so final in his tone I once more repeated the absurdity, mustering all my latent powers of hypocrisy to sound convinced.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.

I was so scared well, I just ran to my car and came here ''.

I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.

`` And I so want the part '', she said.

I said, `` O.K., so now only Blake knows.

I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.

`` I guess so '', she said.

I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

I got a coin between my thumb and forefinger, leaned my elbows in a very natural and casual manner on top of the truck cab and flipped my little missile.

He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.

The fear of disease was formerly very much the kind of fear I have tried to describe.

I told him no, that I had had a very happy childhood.

When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.

Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.

This combined experience, on a foundation of very average, I assure you, intelligence and background, has helped me do things many well-informed people would bet heavily against.

`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.

I recoil from the very thought.

`` Dear Miss Steichen: It is a very good letter you send me -- softens the intensity of this guerilla warfare I am carrying on up here.

I had had difficulties from the very first day.

That was a very absurd and annoying situation in which I was placed by W. M.'s curious methods of handling me.

I know you are very busy now, you are writing a great deal & your book is coming out, isn't it??