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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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