W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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How does one get bored of life?
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If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
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The reality is that the Republican Party may have unified government but is not unified enough on many major signature policy areas.
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As parents are usually working, they haven't time to teach children about cooking, and it's a wilderness. They should be given healthy recipes - some standbys so that when they leave home, they don't live on junk.
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WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
