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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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