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Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.

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Woody Allen
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 1
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When a film is reviled, you open a film and people say Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie. You think: oh, nobody's going to ever speak to you again. But, it doesn't happen. Nobody cares. You know, they read it and they say Oh, they hated your film. You care, at the time. But they don't. Nobody else cares.
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Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
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People ask me whether I think that one day I might wake up one morning and run dry, but I've had the opposite feeling - that I would die before I had time to write all the ideas in my drawer.
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Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college.
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It figures you've got to hate yourself if you've got any integrity at all.
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In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you've left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for you. It's the change of venue, the unblocking the attempt to force the ideas that's crippling you when you're trying to write.
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[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.
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The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.'
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I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.
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I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.
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Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody.
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I don't like theatrical actors and actresses. I like people that talk like real human beings.
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I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
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There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.
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I can't express anger. I grow a tumor instead.
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It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
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I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.
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. . . they confuse everything I do with my life.
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Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes.
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