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The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham
about perfection
"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."
Speech in Philadelphia Woodrow Wilson
"There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right."
"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive."
Oswald Spengler The Hour of Decision
about capitalism, Socialism
"Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes."
"How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!"
about Pesimist
"Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
Arthur Schnabel in Chicago Daily News
about Notes
"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides!"
about Temptation
"I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
about intolerance
"Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it."
"The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on."
about language
"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."