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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?

W. Somerset Maugham

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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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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 well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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Burly Hurly Make Many Matter Mistake Undergo Unhappiness Yourself
If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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