Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
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Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.
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Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.
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Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.
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Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.
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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
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No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
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Sometimes you're not like the person you'd want to hang out with. Would I really want to hang out with me full time? No, you've gotta find people who balance you out.
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I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.
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And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.
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I don't send and receive messages on Snapchat; I never have. Stories is the only feature I use. I think of them becoming a more dynamic social network, and I think it's great.
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I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.
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Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends and a relationship with your lover and your relationship with your family and your relationship with your work - sometimes it's really great; sometimes it's non-existent, sometimes it's fruitful.
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I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.
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Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.
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No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.
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This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.
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I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
