I am not sure if I am quoting this correctly, as I have seen it differently elsewhere. I had it on a piece of paper that I wrote it on from a long time ago. It is from W. Somerset Maugham, and it is from The Razor's Edge. If anyone happens to see this and have it, please feel free to correct me, it. Thanks.
"It is very difficult to know people. For men and women are not only themselves, they are also the region in which they were born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learned to walk, the games they played a children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. You can know them only if you are them."
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