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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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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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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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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Apple Country Hollywood Long Make Occasionally One Peach Women
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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