Maria Semple
speaker
519 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Maria Semple’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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a quote that I think I made up that's one of my favorite quotes is the low road will always dog you.
Like that basically the high road, you can go to sleep feeling good about yourself.
The low road, you might 10 years from now being like walking down the street and going, why did I have to be like cutting to that person in that situation for no reason?
And so I think just on a
practical level it makes sense to just be virtuous and be the person you want to be because then it's like not clogging up your brain with like regret and okay who's the person i want to be
Oh, wait, no, but I've been meaning to, and I had no idea that it had a stoic theme.
That's like everybody's favorite book, and I haven't read it yet.
Oh, Shirley Hazard.
That's Adora Hazard.
I used the last name from Shirley Hazard.
Oh, wow.
It's one of those things where you... Oh, see, that's why I think I haven't read it, because it's like a docudrama.
Okay, that's amazing.
I know that one.
A philosopher?
It's like you become a Christian in the trenches.
The play?
I read the play recently, and I don't remember that.
You know, Julius Caesar, I always thought was like the beginner's play.
It's so good, though.
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