It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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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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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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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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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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