I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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