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Paul Theroux Quotes

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 10, 1941

Topics

Good Manners Good Manners Japanese

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

John C. Maxwell

Choose Choice Now Right Continuing

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

Sad Because Cannot Poem Yours Wants

I have faith that I'll find love again, and if I don't, I'm okay with that.

Love Faith Find Okay Again

Kissinger's monopoly on this historical record has driven many scholars to distraction. Groups of lawyers, scholars, journalists and archivists have used pronunciamento, lawsuit, and other crowbars in a usually vain effort to open Kissinger's Library of Congress cache.

Michael Beschloss

Effort Library Lawyers Congress Open

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Sophie Swetchine

Love Direction Loving Others More

We can either rip your face up with 'Painkiller,' or we can play this beautiful thing called 'Last Rose of Summer' from 'Sin After Sin.' And people love us for that because they don't really know what to expect.

Love Beautiful People Rose Face Sin

The difficult thing with mental illness is that there's no one to blame. You can't blame a person who's mentally ill, because they didn't ask for it! There's no choice to it.

Donna Lynne Champlin

Blame You Choice Person Difficult

The best thing as a director is being able to be part of the thing that's so cool about a TV show, like running a character arc over six episodes or multiple series.

Character Best Cool Director Over

I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it.

Determination Think Hidden Difficult

Republicans - well, we're all part of the same family. We need to have some good disagreements with each other; we need to debate, but in the end, it's all about uniting, not dividing.

Family Good End Debate Need Same

What I have to do to make sure I don't lose some games in a row; I don't know.

Lose Know Games Sure Make Some

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Work Ideas Survive Political Find

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