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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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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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Beauty Humble Ignorance Inconspicuously Knowledge Love Notice Outness People Simple
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
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
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Cease Great Love Men Perish Tragedy
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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Angry Believe God Les Part Than Tolerant
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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Convent Find One Only Peace Pleasure Soul World
They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance
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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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Daydreaming Look Love Pay People Think Trouble Want
When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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Domination Love Nothing Possess Rage Satisfied She Soul Woman
It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Beautiful Bed Day Decide Stau Such

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