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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Moliere

The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

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