W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

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• If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.

  

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• I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.

  

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• I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

  

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• When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

  

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• Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

  

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• The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

  

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• That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.

  

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• There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

  

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• I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

  

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• Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

  

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• I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

  

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• The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.

  

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• What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

  

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• The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

  

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• If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.

  

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• There's nothing wrong with being fired.

  

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• The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

  

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• The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

  

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• By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

  

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• I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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