"The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected."

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W. Somerset Maugham

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“What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers not warranted by its true meaning, I answer the same as if they should misconstrue or enlarge any other power vested in them . . . the success of the usurpation will depend on the executive and judiciary departments, which are to expound and give effect to the legislative acts; and in a last resort a remedy must be obtained from the people, who can by the elections of more faithful representatives, annul the acts of the usurpers.”
“I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.”
“Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.”
“Love is not consolation, it is light.”
“I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.”
“France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.”
“We lunched and dined in crowded restaurants. We were always alone.”
“Life is a question in the form of an answer”

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