I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThey have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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