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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Guarantee Learn Most Something Thing Truth Valuable
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
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Defect Friend Know Merit Rather
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
To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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Adventure Again Artist Hear Heart Imagination Melody Recognize Repeat Sensitiveness
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 dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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Angry Dangerous Easily Illusion Public Scene
Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art Enough Life Long Love
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Ask Criticism Only People Praise Want
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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Beauty Compose Disgust Idea Live Make Men Only Picture Possible Regard Thing World
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
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
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Because Have Want Write
Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Each Happen Know Love Men Other Women
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Human Lose Nobody Race Something Soon Speech Spoke Unless Very
Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Cease Concern Death Effect Exist Happen Living

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