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• Last night I met upon the stair A little man who wasn't there.
  He wasn't there again today. Gee how I wish he'd go away!...
• Today I saw a red-and-yellow sunset and thought, how insignificant I am!
  Of course, I thought that yesterday, too, and it rained. -- Woody Alle...
• As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there.
  He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away. -- Hughes Mearns, _The Psychoed_...
• Which I wish to remark,-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
  -- Francis Bret Harte (1839-1902) -- Plain Language from Truthful Jame...
• Here I am again - back in uncertainty.
• To Willie's widow, Lily, and her new husband, Teixeira de Mattos, Wilde said, "I am dying beyond my means.
  I will never outlive the century. The English people would not stand for it....
• The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful. My thoughts aren't too clear, but don't run away.
  My girlfriend's a bore; my job is too dutiful. Hell nobody's perfect, would you like to play?...
• heisenbug /hi:'zen-buhg/ n. [from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics] A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it.
  (This usage is not even particularly fanciful...