If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIn Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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