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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Difference Long Love Men Time Women
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
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Daydreaming Look Love Pay People Think Trouble Want
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Know Novel Rule Three Unfortunately Write
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Always Despicable Necessary Oneself Other Sometimes
When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Durable Eighteen Emotion Violent
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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Age Amaze Began Country Eighty Elde Language Learn People Person Statement Young
I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Everlasting Matter Past Present Think
It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Bent Cry Force Milk Over Spill Spilt Universe Use
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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Character Crete Incident Matter Pasion Sincerity Story Tell Write
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Guide Jailer Tradition
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Bad Easier Good Habit One Thing Unfortunate
It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Discover Easy Know Late Say Until
Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Future Life Live Over Present Worry Worth
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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Acquire Class Culture Enter Government Grant Men More Percent Portrait Rather Scene Sixty Today Told University
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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Before Care Cesare Death Long Love Other Separation Think Tragedy
You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Alley Blind Down Lead Lot One Time Waste You
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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Anyone Belief Broadcast Hardly Horror Large Life Own Sexual Surprise World
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Come Earth End Famous Leave Life May More never River Sojourn Stone Surface Water Trace
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Able Account Acquire Bring Famous Friend Know Men Prestige Prove Small Tell
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Achieve Constitution Dirty Love Paly Species Trick
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother
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
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Bad Enough Future Know Past
There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Thing Thought Two
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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Attention Bad Good Man One Play Sort Tormented
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Dictator Fool Himself Must One People Time Way

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