Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMNow it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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They 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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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