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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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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
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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Action Both Bother Choose Country Else Everybody Freedom Good May Nobody Thing
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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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Important Love Loved Rather Thing
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Can Epigram Make None Tell Truth
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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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 crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Belief Change Forever Good Life New Will

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