"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."

-- W. Somerset Maugham

#Perfection Quotes #People Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.”
“We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.”
“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope”
“I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with 'Jacques Brel' doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.”
“Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.”
“Trickster, love will be the end of you.”
“Besides, many Islamic movements will change as soon as they gain political responsibility. I'm not at all pessimistic in this regard. Just think of Turkey, where the Islamists are now behaving like a sort of Christian Democratic party in Europe.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.”

Source : Gabriel Vahanian (2009). “The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era”, p.5, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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