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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing. ↗

— Diana Ross

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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. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

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