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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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