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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?

W. Somerset Maugham

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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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