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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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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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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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