In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMoney is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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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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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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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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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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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