W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
Nat Wolff
The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
Imre Kertesz
My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
Laraine Day
If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
Imre Kertesz
When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
Patrick Dempsey
What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'
Kate O'Mara
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
Samuel Adams
I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
Caio Fonseca
With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
Zosia Mamet
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
Jerome K. Jerome
