Quote by Somerset Maugham
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for b

It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. – Somerset Maugham

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The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. – Somerset Maugham

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Habits
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. – Somerset Maugham

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Cities
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anais Nin

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A bosom friend — an intimate friend, you know — a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul. – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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One sure way to lose another womans friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements. – Marcelene Cox

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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. – Oscar Wilde

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. – Victor Hugo

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To be educated, a person doesnt have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life. – Thomas More

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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art. – Marc Chagall

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If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism – about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica. – Danny Glover

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