When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMNow it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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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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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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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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