"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you."

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W. Somerset Maugham

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“I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.”
“As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.”
“A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.”

Source : James Thomas Fields, “The Lucky Horseshoe”
“I was already set for life when I met her.”

Source : "Love on the rocks". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2014.
“Mr. [Donald] Trump, for five years, you perpetuated a false claim that the nation's first black president was not a natural-born citizen. You questioned his legitimacy. In the last couple of weeks, you acknowledged what most Americans have accepted for years: The president was born in the United States.”

Source : The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.
“I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.”

Source : "Schrodinger : Life and Thought" by Walter J. Moore, (p. 1), 1992.
“The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.”
“I don't see myself doing television, but I do see myself directing.”

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