American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers
William Somerset Maugham
There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action
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The value of art is not beauty, but right action
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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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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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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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
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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Beauty is a bit of a bore.
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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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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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