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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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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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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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