Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMNothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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If 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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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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