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

Other quotes by Somerset Maugham

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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Friendship
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I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but Im ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the worlds biggest R.E.M. fan. – Bill Berry

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Friendship

You always think you could have done more. That’s why you need a friend — to tell you you did all you could. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Friendship

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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Friendship

Watching John Lasseters films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what hes doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him. – Hayao Miyazaki

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Friendship

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I dont think childrens inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house they want places to play. – Beverly Cleary

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parenting

We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them. – Shaun White

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dad

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. – Will Durant

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Knowledge

All we are saying is give peace a chance. – John Lennon

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Peace