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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."
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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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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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