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 ''.

`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.

You fell down in front of the house, and I carried you in.

I gave you a drink and then you went to sleep ''.

`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.

I saw you driftin away -- but I tried.

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

God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.

`` I made you what you are '', Gavin whispered.

`` I made you so you could stand up.

I made you a man ''.

The charge, I tell you ''!!

`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.

`` I thought I told you to stay home ''.

I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.

`` I won't even try to thank you ''.

He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.

I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

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.

When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

`` 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.

In any case I do not intend to let the present occasion pass without dealing more directly with the problem of implementing good intentions.

`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.

The daughter, Lilly, was a very good friend of mine and I always had hopes that someday she and Meltzer would find each other.

Sir Ed. Gre. is gonne to Brestowe and from thence to Lond. as I heare, who verie well knoweth our estates and wil be willinge to do us ani good ''.

Wherefore I thynke yow maye doo good yff yow can have money ''.

But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.

`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.

Without the good magazines, without their book reviews, their hospitality to European writers, without above all their awareness of literary standards, we might very well have had a generation of Krim's heroes -- Wolfes, Farrells, Dreisers, and I might add, Sandburgs and Frosts and MacLeishes in verse -- and then where would we be??

I feel that few burglars would be prone to break and enter into someone's apartment if they were met with a good hardy growl that a dog would provide.

The matter may seem a small thing to some people, I know, but it's a very good start on the road to Totalitarianism The Commission has posted signs in Washington Square saying:

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.