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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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