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Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.
Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.
Approximate author period: c. 1919 AD · modern
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- W. Somerset Maugham
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- Approximate author period: c. 1919 AD · modern
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