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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for 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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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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