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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
Beauty
W. Somerset Maugham

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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Writers and Writing
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
Misfortunes
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
Writers and Writing
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
Writers and Writing
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There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Freedom
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
Tolerance
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
Tradition
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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
Friends and Friendship
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
Resignation
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
Laughter
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.
Consequences
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You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
Adultery
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun