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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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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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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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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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Buck Comparision Daughter Easy Grown Inside Know Manage Pretend Simple Steer
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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Demand Desire Other Preposterous Sacrifice Should Unselfishness
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Belief Common Contrary Excercise Grow Imagination Mature More Powerful Young
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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