Quotes
Authors
W. Somerset Maugham
"Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain. We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them." --
W. Somerset Maugham
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“Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such long letters to people who seldom reply in kind, if indeed they reply at all. Somehow by compressing and editing the events of my life, I infuse them with a dramatic intensity totally lacking at the time, but oddly enough I find that years later what I remember is not the event as I lived it but as I described it in a letter.”
Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.168, Penguin
“It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.”
“States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.”
“He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.”
“I’m wearing out this new Coal Men record. I think it’s masterful start-to-finish. Dave Coleman is one of Americana music’s great songwriters, and I hope this record gets the attention it deserves.”
“We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.”
“I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.”