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Even Joan Didion, Ms Cool Rationality herself, wanders out of a Honolulu mall with impulse-purchased straw hats, nail enamel and a toaster: "Flying back across the Pacific, I regretted only the toaster".

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I regret only one decision from that day: recounting the episode for an editor when I arrived at the office.

(I regret only the omission of a personal favorite, that superb and very different Italian novella "Knights and Dragons". A somewhat discordant and doom-laden note would perhaps have been struck by this account of a woman haunted by her ex-husband, a dark and elliptically modern study of paranoia and disorientation).

Upon retirement, Barkley was later quoted as stating, in regards to his career, "I was fairly controversial, I guess, but I regret only one thing the spitting incident.

As a New Yorker I'll regret only that Maglie, Stengel, Pee Wee, Jackie, Mickey and Leo can't be on hand to watch the games, then talk about them deep into the night.

Perhaps even I regret now only taking residency in the U.S., but just as I knew that you, my children, were Americans, I knew who I was, a Somali.

Benny Lee, 38, has spent half his life in prison for manslaughter, and for most of that time, he said, "the only thing I regretted was getting caught".

Today I regret it, but this is only in hindsight".

Travelling is never a decision I've regretted – not only did it provide me with some amazing experiences but it also landed me a great job.

I regret to say that only three episodes remain.

Thomas Jefferson c. Benjamin Franklin d. James Madison 22. Who said, I regret that I have only one life to give for my country?

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