Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.
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For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.
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It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.
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Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
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The Admiral ordered the lord to be given some things, and he and all his folk rested in great contentment, believing truly that they had come from the sky, and to see the Christians they held themselves very fortunate.
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My family's a ruling family.
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Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.
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Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.
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There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.
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My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
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As a lawyer who has dealt in defamation, I know that someone's reputation has to be lowered in the eyes of right-thinking people to sue.
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Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams.
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
