There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLove is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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