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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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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 was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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