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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
The crown of literature is poetry.
Quotes By W. Somerset Maugham
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but...
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It is not wealth one asks for but just enough to preserve one's dignity to...
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In Hollywood the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple...
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Anyone can tell the truth but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're...
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain egotistic and...
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and...
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to...
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of...
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its...
Quotes About Poetry
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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
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Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly...
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I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good...
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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and...
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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.