W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.
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You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
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Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
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Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
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I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.
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The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.
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I believe very deeply that this beauty I call the soul is not a random occurrence. I don't know what its meaning is at some larger level, but I know that it has meaning.
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I literally order sushi, watch 'Law & Order,' and go to sleep at 9 o'clock every night. I'm a grandmother.
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The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.
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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
