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 MAUGHAMI personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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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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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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