You must not pursue a success, but fly from it. - W. Somerset Maugham

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Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.

W. Somerset Maugham

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material. . . Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

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