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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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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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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Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.
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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
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I think Bible principles are principles for life.
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In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
