I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMy own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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