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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Now 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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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 fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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Nothing 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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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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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