The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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