"It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer."

-- W. Somerset Maugham

#Writing Quotes #Gentleman Quotes #Comeback Quotes

“When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.”
“You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.”
“When you learn that you can trust life, life will deliver treasures beyond your imagination.”
“The first time we put Debbie Downer on the show, I had a giggle fit that I couldn't control, and the whole cast ended up breaking so hard we could never quite recover.”

Source : Rachel Dratch (2012). “Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle”, p.53, Penguin
“My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.”
“Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.”

Source : Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult
“I get more gratification out of getting some obese person who had a heart attack running around and enjoying life within a year. I get more gratification from that than putting a person in the Olympic Games. The Olympic athlete probably doesn't appreciate what you've done, but the other guy does. I think it's really rewarding.”
“I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.”

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