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  1. James Baldwin _ The Fire Next Time

    The vision people hold of the world to come is but a reflection, with predictable wishful distortions, of the world in which they live.
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  2. Iain Pears _ The Dream of Scipio

    Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.
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  3. David Sedaris _ When You Are Engulfed in

    I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis."
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  4. Douglas Coupland _ Player One: What Is to Become

    Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments in life could feel: heightened with the sense that anything could happen at any moment--that being alive is important, because just when you least expect it, you might receive exactly what you least expect.
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  5. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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  6. Louisa May Alcott _ Little Women

    …the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again.
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  7. Cormac McCarthy _ All the Pretty Horses

    In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing, the world lies waiting.
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  8. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The March of Folly: From Troy

    Washington's incessant need for NEW assessments testifies to uncertainty in the capital.
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  9. Cecelia Ahern _ Perfect

    I don't believe in magic, yet I see making wishes as a nod to hope, an acknowledgement of the power of will, the recognition of a goal.
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  10. Cecelia Ahern _ Perfect

    I have too many wishes and feel that none of them are within my reach. But I also believe that the moment we're beyond wishes is either the moment we're truly happy, or the moment to give up
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