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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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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 two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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