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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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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 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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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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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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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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