Top 100 Wish I Had Quotes

#1. Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'

Zooey Deschanel

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#2. I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.

Kristen Wiig

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#3. I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.

Alex Pettyfer

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#4. Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more time to think about that, but I can't change it.

Amanda Lindhout

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#5. I've gone to prom multiple times, had fights with the principal, a relationship with my teacher. When people ask if I wish I had gone to high school, I tell them that I've acted all of that stuff out, and it just doesn't seem like fun.

Britt Robertson

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#6. I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

Natalie Merchant

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#7. I wish I had adventures like you do," Leaf said as she traced her finger over the writing on the invitation.
"They didn't feel like adventures," said Arthur.

Garth Nix

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#8. I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.

Kelly Clarkson

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#9. Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

Jonathan Edwards

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#10. Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper!' 'Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the young Crab, a little snappishly. 'You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!' 'I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!' said Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular.

Lewis Carroll

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#11. Nothing but this: I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had ... I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is.

George R R Martin

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#12. I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.

Jonathan Edwards

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#13. I wish I had done everything on earth with you

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#14. I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is generally an idiot compared to the adult you. That's the way it should be. If it's the other way around, you have a problem.

Emma Forrest

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#15. I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.

James Black

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#16. I wish I were like you pa. I wish I had not been afraid, all my life! Pg.55

Obehi Peter Ewanfoh

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#17. I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.

Tyra Banks

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#18. I wish I had your talent, David."
"I like that," he said with a small frown.
"What? That I think you're talented?"
"No. I like how my name sounds on your lips."
David and Eva

Michelle K. Pickett

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#19. I wish I had flaps of extra skin connecting my arms & legs like a Flying Squirrel & then spend my days at the park jumping from tree to tree

Josh Stern

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#20. I wish the world had been made in six days, and knocked to pieces again in six more. And I wish I had done it. The joke's good enough in a broad way, sun and moon and the image of God, and all that, but they keep it up so damnably long.

G.K. Chesterton

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#21. I wish I had some stock in a scrunchie company.

Hillary Clinton

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#22. Sometimes I wish I had never saved your neck from decapitation in Faroe. Then I could just descend into lewdness in peace.

Natalia Marx

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#23. I trained for the drums for about two weeks, and then rocking out in front of an entire crowd was sort of like a dream come true. And now, Guitar Hero, I can't do that anymore. It's nothing like doing it on stage. I kinda wish I had a fake band, and we could go on tour.

Devon Bostick

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#24. Do you wish you would die?
No. But I might wish I had died. When you're alive you've always got that ahead of you.
Or you might wish you'd never been born.
Well. Beggars cant be choosers.

Cormac McCarthy

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#25. Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

Kurt Cobain

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#26. No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.

Dan Quayle

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#27. I played French horn, and I certainly do miss it. I miss it. I wish I had the time to keep up with it. It's like exercising: You have to keep it up, especially the muscles in your lips to deal with the French horn.

Chuck Todd

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#28. As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on about. Certainly I wish I had never written Voss, which is going to be everybody's albatross.

Patrick White

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#29. Yes. And I'm rich now when I think about it. I own myself, and I'm worth eight hundred dollars. I wish I had the money. Then I wouldn't ever want anything else

Mark Twain

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#30. We said we'd fly the flag without him and carry on. I didn't give him a kiss because I still hadn't accepted what was happening. I was hoping that some miracle was going to happen. Of course, it didn't. I wish I had kissed him now.

Robin Gibb

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#31. People would say to me, "Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney", and I'd say: "I wish I had his money!"

Paul McCartney

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#32. I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

Dianne Wiest

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#33. To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.

Roger Zelazny

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#34. I wish I had more confidence.

Seann William Scott

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#35. While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in magazines, to get an "A," as though poetry could be graded. I wish I had been more patient and less frantic about getting published.

Denise Duhamel

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#36. I really
wish I had enjoyed it more.

Jenny Han

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#37. Resume? I wish I had a resume. And if I did, I wouldn't scrub anything from it. Who cares?

Anders Holm

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#38. I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

Keri Russell

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#39. But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'

Sam Smith

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#40. Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.

Harry Styles

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#41. I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything ... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#42. I doubt anyone on their deathbed has said "boy, I wish I had taken more shots of Jagermeister." Get

Jason Flamm

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#43. I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.

Kate Atkinson

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#44. I fired the nurse the next day because she didn't check out the NFL schedule in advance - just kidding, ... I plan to be in Denver. I haven't missed a lot of games over the years. But there's a bunch I wish I had.

Lamar Hunt

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#45. The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.

Harry Chapin

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#46. I'm in a band, and I know exactly who those girls are. I know exactly what goes on backstage. I wish I had a little leash to walk him around.

Gwen Stefani

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#47. I see nobody on the road,' said Alice. 'I only wish I had such eyes,' the King remarked in a fretful tone. 'To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance, too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!

Lewis Carroll

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#48. I wish I had more damn time to read...

Quentin Wallace

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#49. I love to teach, especially high school-aged students, because I like introducing them to the absolute basics of everything they're ever going to learn, the things I wish I had learned at that age. It's the stuff you can always go back to in terms of absolute fundamentals.

Josh Cooke

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#50. All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

Prince

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#51. I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

Connie Francis

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#52. As for me, I only wish the former Christy Epping had been correct. I wish I had been emotionally blocked, after all. Because everything that followed - every terrible thing - flowed from those tears.

Stephen King

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#53. I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything was done with an eye on the GLBT movement ... last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the voice was young, my election gave one more young person, hope

Harvey Milk

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#54. But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.

Ernestine Rose

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#55. I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.

Patton Oswalt

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#56. Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

John Fahey

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#57. I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

Mo Rocca

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#58. There wouldn't be any way I could have jumped into Cup with the success I had without the truck series. I wish I had more time to spend there. There are so many things the truck teaches you about aerodynamics, the professional ranks of racing, and working with a professional team.

Kurt Busch

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#59. I wish I had that carefree lifestyle. But I guess I'm more private, and more inside.

David Spade

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#60. I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. 'Phantom' has less blood.

Jo Nesbo

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#61. Almost every night I say, I wish I had done much better,

David Frost

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#62. Sometimes I wish I had a lower IQ so I could enjoy your company.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

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#63. I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

Artie Lange

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#64. One of the saddest sentences I know is "I wish I had asked my mother about that." Or my father. Or my grandmother. Or my grandfather. As every parent knows, our children are not as fascinated by our fascinating lives as we are.

William Zinsser

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#65. I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Jimmy Carter

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#66. Every ex-player I meet says the exact same thing to me 'I wish I had given it longer'. Too many players get flights home when they have the opportunity because they' re missing their mates and home, then they go back into that environment and get comfortable.

Kevin Kilbane

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#67. I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a six four impala!

Skee-Lo

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#68. I have a lot of regrets about what I've done. If I had to do it over again, I never would have left the Mets. I'm very thankful for all that Mr. (George) Steinbrenner did for me when I was with the Yankees, but I wish I had stayed in New York with the Mets.

Darryl Strawberry

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#69. Magnus, I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants you do.

Cassandra Clare

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#70. Trash bags are among my favorite consumer products. I wish I had invented them. What a racket. People buy them, take them home, and throw them away. Let's see Bill Gates top that.

Gary Reilly

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#71. Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

Jimmy Fallon

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#72. I wish I had amnesia so I could forget what you look like.

Lucy Christopher

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#73. I wish I had a stand-in for real life. Can you imagine having someone walk through your day to make sure everything's fine before it's your turn?

Lygia Day Penaflor

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#74. For your wedding gift, I wish I had a spell that could make you see yourself as others do.' 'Based

Deborah Harkness

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#75. The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.

David Selby

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#76. I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.

George McGovern

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#77. Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, 'I wish I had', or 'I'm glad I did.'

Zig Ziglar

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#78. I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.

Kylie Bax

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#79. Sometimes I wish I had a rewind button for my mouth.

Belle Aurora

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#80. I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives me an inferiority complex. When I read a book like that and then come back to my own work, I feel like a eunuch who has taken a course in voice production.

George Orwell

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#81. To kind of go through life not caring is a spectacular attribute. It's one I wish I had.

Neil Cross

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#82. I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.

Rebecca Stead

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#83. I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.

Shekhar Kapur

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#84. She's a nice girl, Tennessee said as a way of saying goodbye to them, as a way of saying thank you and I'm sorry, as a way of saying, I wish I had never let you go and I wish we had never met.

Ann Patchett

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#85. It isn't porn. It's erotic romance. There is a huge difference. Amber Rose writes hot love stories. And if you can't handle it, then I don't care. I love her books, and I wish I had known who she was when I met her. Erotic romance helped me figure out what I wanted." Jake

Lexi Blake

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#86. I tell her she's beautiful and perfect and she's going to be okay. I tell her she doesn't need to change herself to fit in with shallow girls or to matter to someone. I tell her everything I wish I had ever known. I tell her I love her, and I realize as I say it that I love me, too.

Cristin Terrill

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#87. You are livin'," she says in feigned exasperation. "You just don't see what I see. You got something special. Something you got from your ma. It's a thing. I mean, I wish I had it. It's this thing where you know what it's going to take, and then you get it done. You push yourself and you get there.

Ron Suskind

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#88. I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of insecurity and self-doubt as a young girl and the side-effects of that were long lasting, well into my late twenties.

Deborah Reber

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#89. Perhaps the most simple, and effective, way to initially judge a piece of writing is to ask yourself: is this something I wish I had done myself, or am I glad I didn't?

Scott L. Montgomery

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#90. I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.

Clint Eastwood

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#91. Seven years after I saw the pictures of those doors, I received my first adult passport. I wish I had come to it sooner.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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#92. I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.

Jenny Downham

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#93. I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.

Meg Cabot

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#94. I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.

Channing Tatum

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#95. No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

Danielle Berry

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#96. Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.

Jonathan Edwards

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#97. I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

Terry Bradshaw

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#98. Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.

Ned Vizzini

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#99. When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

Edie Brickell

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#100. I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

Anne Fortier

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