Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
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All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.
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Skryabin comes so close to the twelve-note system that it seems probable he would have taken it as the next logical step.
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If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.
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There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
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I can't sing or dance.
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And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to.
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Modeling is really silent acting.
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Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology.
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I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.
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All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.
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No, I never wish that. I don't intend to die till I've enjoyed my life. Everyone has a right to happiness and sooner or later I will have it. Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.
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Diversity is what makes life interesting.
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I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.
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He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
