Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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