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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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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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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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