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Maria Semple Quotes

When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.

Maria Semple

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 21, 1964

Topics

Good Laughter Me Book Reality Laugh

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Johannes Brahms

Health Jealousy Enjoy Trying Bad

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Robert Owen

Law Society Rational Cannot Found

Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.

Stacy London

Style Yourself Joy You Joyful Allow

Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.

Sky Ferreira

Lie You Just Because Mean Reason

Unless you're born here, I don't know if you can ever become a full New Yorker.

Trevor Moore

You Born New Know Become Here

I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

Michael Moore

Me Better I Can Individual Because

I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.

Michael Moore

God Movies Way See Gone Big

I'm fully aware, I've gotten terrible reviews my entire career. It's not a really big deal; it's something I can deal with.

Lou Barlow

Career I Can Big Something Aware

I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Family Reading Gym Out Going Like

I believe in creative work.

Demian Bichir

Work Creative Believe I Believe

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Bobby Jones

Time Me Golf New Say Nothing

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Pierre Corneille

Liar Always Lavish Oaths