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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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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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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I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
