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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Everlasting Matter Past Present Think
I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Excite Experience Happy High Illuminate Infinity One Plane Rich Spirit Surround
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Character Look Over Part Perplexity Time Varius
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Guide Jailer Tradition
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Come Democracy Down Invent Persuasive Politician Power Seek Self Slogan
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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Anything Ask Delight Foolish Last More Nothing Permanent World
Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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Bear Bitter Could Dreadfully Indifference Love Made Mind Mistake Saw Tragedy Women
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Know Life Thing
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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Age Bear Burden Faculty Fall Make Memory One Physical
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Best Desire Often Overcome Satisfy Way
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Anything Comfort Freedom Irony Lose Money More Nation Value Virtue
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Because Have Want Write
Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Cease Concern Death Effect Exist Happen Living

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