W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
The nature of men and women - their essential nature – is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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Free love sounds great.
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.
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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
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I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.
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I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
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I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
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It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Now there was fought a battle such as men have not seen the like. And the earth was covered with steel, and arrows fell from the clouds like hail, and the ground was torn with hoofs, and blood flowed like water upon the plains. And the dead lay around in masses, and the feet of the horses could not stir because of them.
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You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.
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The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.
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The nature of men and women - their essential nature – is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
