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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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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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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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