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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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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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