W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone who is willing to listen.
W. Somerset Maugham
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
Faye Dunaway
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
Gary Wolf
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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Walter Lippmann
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin
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I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.
Nazanin Boniadi
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I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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I use Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Lotion for my body and Aveeno Clear Complexion Daily Moisturizer for my face. I love how it smooths my skin and keeps it soft and shiny all day.
Khoudia Diop
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The words 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,' which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this.
Pauline Kael
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I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.
Christopher Buckley
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He who never says "no" is no true man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone who is willing to listen.
W. Somerset Maugham